It seems to me that we are not stepping up to help provide this kind of assistance that we have talked about here. We signed this agreement.

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I see this as a huge, gaping problem that the Ranking Member rightly--obviously, he's got some ideas from his airports.

In New Hampshire, we have a tremendous heroin epidemic, and previously I have heard from officials testifying before this Committee that the heroin is coming over on the land border, on the Southern Border.

Thank you so much Commissioner Kerlikowske.

So if all of those statements could be entered for the record, I would appreciate it.

there was clearly an impression at the time that somehow you could receive a permiso or pass if you made it to the United States.

it has outlived its purpose and that you should be given the same tools as the Secretary had previously asked us.

What is it that you need to increase interdiction? Is it more planes, more people? What do we need to understand?

In my State we are seeing a heroin epidemic, and I know a lot of that is coming over the Southern Border.

This would be a more effective way to get everyone together, all working together, with the prosecution embedded?