The subcommittee to order. And thank all of our witnesses for being with us today. Were eager to hear your contribution to the subject of our concerns, which is visa overstays. Most of the time when we talk about the flaws of our immigration system, we talk about Border Security as being the paramount concern and, for me, it is, obviously coming from texas with a 1200mile common border and notwithstanding the great work being done by Border Patrol, it still remains a vulnerability and we are working hard to come up with some proposals that will help address that. But the one vulnerability that seems to be overlooked is visa overstays, people who enter our country legally and then who overstay their visa and simply melt into the Great American landscape. And as i think about it, while i understand the desire of people coming from other countries, perhaps, to emigrate to the United States because of economic or security conditions, it it is almost the moral offensive to me that people co
The subcommittee to order. And thank all of our witnesses for being with us today. Were eager to hear your contribution to the subject of our concerns, which is visa overstays. Most of the time when we talk about the flaws of our immigration system, we talk about Border Security as being the paramount concern and, for me, it is, obviously coming from texas with a 1200mile common border and notwithstanding the great work being done by Border Patrol, it still remains a vulnerability and we are working hard to come up with some proposals that will help address that. But the one vulnerability that seems to be overlooked is visa overstays, people who enter our country legally and then who overstay their visa and simply melt into the Great American landscape. And as i think about it, while i understand the desire of people coming from other countries, perhaps, to emigrate to the United States because of economic or security conditions, it it is almost the moral offensive to me that people co
They were addment and they were une adamant and they were unequivocal. We cant have moments of silence when we see americans perish. As robin kelly, republican from illinois, said we cant just think about americans lives that are lost when its Mass Shootings. Every day there is an american that is killed 30 people, 30 americans killed every day as a result of the use of weapons. And we need to stand up and the message was very clear in todays caurks. Members will stand todays caucus. Members will stand. We understand its important to express to the people of this country this moment of silence to let the families of the victims know we are thinking of them. By god, this is the peoples house, and if we cant stand up and then do something, then were in trouble. There are any number of things that could be done. Must do a better job identifying and checking the background of those who seek to buy weapons, especially assault weapons. We could ask people to pass the legislation that Mike Th
At 12 50 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Now, a house hearing on the security risks posed by people who overstay their visas and what the administration is doing to stop them. Testimony was heard from immigration officials. This is two hours at hand 45 minutes. Two hours and 45 minutes. The committee on Homeland Security and borderland security will come to order. The committee is meeting to exit. E dhs overstay and lets have art, moment of silence to honor those who were killed in the terror attack in orlando. There is more than just security along the southwest order to consider. Time into gun, terrorist have exploited the esa system by legally entering america. The 9 11 committee put it this way, for terrorists, traveled documents are as important as weapons. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing, terrorists have abused the hospitality of the American People to attack people here at home. Egyptian convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings was ill legally in the United States as a cab
For example, should everyone who ever gets questioned by the fbi be on some sort of watchlist . We dont want to go that far. But we have to ask those sorts of questions. For me, you have to Pay Attention to the authorities that Law Enforcement and thelligence folsks have, resources they have. Part of the reason they close investigations is because they have to use those resources for a higher priority. Back to my daily week, and is important to tarnish isiss by defeating them there. And combating their ideology. Thoset it is harder for people who may have grievances, or anger, to plug into this ideology and think they are accomplishing something great. All of that has to be on our radar screen. With regard to the fbi investigation, d do you feel mr. Thornberry obviously, the fbi will go back and see if it could of been improved. My point is, there are a number of people who traveled back and forth to iraq and syria. That, there are those were radicalizing on the internet. There are onl