Silvestre Reyes: “I strongly believe that the professional staff and counselors at Vet Centers should be given the same tools to serve our…”

By increasing the number of frontline inspectors, Customs and Border Protection can devote the manpower necessary to interdict those individuals who would seek to do us harm.

I do hope we are careful with those reductions, because in the final analysis, the ones that pay the price are the service men and women and their families.

We must work cooperatively if we are to realistically address the problems that impact the people on both sides of the border.

Today I am asking this committee to appropriate $10 million for preliminary engineering and environmental studies for an elevated, automated people mover system, connecting these two downtowns; downtown in El Paso and the downtown in…