if China is going to Latin America and offering money and infrastructure and security, the United States has to counter that with more than rhetoric.
This is a time for engagement and partnership, not hyperpartisanship.
The worst thing we could do for our own security is drive our Latin American neighbors into the arms of our adversaries.
Investing in aid and commerce in Latin America is not charity, it is in our national security interest.
There are common-sense, bipartisan actions that this committee could be taking up to improve security along the Southern Border.
The notion that President Biden or Secretary Mayorkas are guilty of 'dereliction of duty' are absurd.
I am getting sick and tired of House Republicans politicizing the Department of Homeland Security.
One of the remedies to this is, let people apply for asylum at U.S. consulates or from their home countries so that they can see whether the...
I support those things. They don't. Fine. Leave that conversation for another day.
This bill would go back to honoring that treaty and returning that land.
I am glad to be holding this hearing to examine threats posed by transnational criminal organizations to the U.S. homeland.