Us. The president decided the United States knock longer tolerate the corruption of the next can drug cartels and the deadly consequences of the tens of billions of dollars of Illegal Drugs those cartels smuggle across our southern border. President trump ran on an agenda of securing the border. Since taking office, the president has done just that. The Trump Administration working tirelessly to stop the flow of Illegal Immigrants and Illegal Drugs working with central mayor scan governments and members co, cracking down on caravans and false asylum seekers. The president s pressure on the Mexican Government led to 27,000 mexican troops on the borders helping curb illegal immigration to the United States. But as aggressive as mexico has been on cracking down on illegal immigration, the government of mexico appears reluctant to take the same aggressive posture to fight the violence of the drug cartels. 80 of mexico is controlled or disputed by the cartels, even though the murder rate in
States knock longer tolerate the corruption of the next can drug cartels and the deadly consequences of the tens of billions of dollars of Illegal Drugs those cartels smuggle across our southern border. President trump ran on an agenda of securing the border. Since taking office, the president has done just that. The Trump Administration working tirelessly to stop the flow of Illegal Immigrants and Illegal Drugs working with central mayor scan governments and members co, cracking down on caravans and false asylum seekers. The president s pressure on the Mexican Government led to 27,000 mexican troops on the borders helping curb illegal immigration to the United States. But as aggressive as mexico has been on cracking down on illegal immigration, the government of mexico appears reluctant to take the same aggressive posture to fight the violence of the drug cartels. 80 of mexico is controlled or disputed by the cartels, even though the murder rate in mexico is on pace yet again for a re
The president decided the United States knock longer tolerate the corruption of the next can drug cartels and the deadly consequences of the tens of billions of dollars of Illegal Drugs those cartels smuggle across our southern border. President trump ran on an agenda of securing the border. Since taking office, the president has done just that. The Trump Administration working tirelessly to stop the flow of Illegal Immigrants and Illegal Drugs working with central mayor scan governments and members co, cracking down on caravans and false asylum seekers. The president s pressure on the Mexican Government led to 27,000 mexican troops on the borders helping curb illegal immigration to the United States. But as aggressive as mexico has been on cracking down on illegal immigration, the government of mexico appears reluctant to take the same aggressive posture to fight the violence of the drug cartels. 80 of mexico is controlled or disputed by the cartels, even though the murder rate in mex
Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Commanders u. S. Northern command u. S. Southern command testify on security challenges affecting the western hemisphere from the Senate Armed Services committee this is just under two hours. [laughter] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] the Committee Meets today to receive testimony from general gregory geo commander of Northern Command and aerospace defensee command and Laura Richardson of u. S. Southern commands. Hearing as commander and we welcome you sir. I would also note this is general richardsons alaska. Before the committee and her current role. General, i would like to express my appreciation for your decades service to the nation including outstanding leadership for the forces, thank you very much maam. I like to take aoing crisis in haiti. The situation is very concerning and i understand the u. S. Military forces have beenrfdeployed to augment security at her embassy in portauprince and evacuate nonessential personnel. This cri
Subcommittee on a rise of organized retail crime. Discuss how criminal networks are recruiting people online and on the black market encourage congress to pass new legislation to help address the issue. [background noises] [background noises] committee on Homeland Security subcommittee and counterterror and Law Enforcement intelligence will come to order. Without objection subcommittee may recess at any point. The purpose of this hearing is to evaluate the unprecedented uptick in organized retail crime in the United States and to hear testimony from key witnesses from federal government and private industry. I doubt recognize myself for an Opening Statement. That afternoon. We welcome you to todays important hearing on organized retail crime threats to our public safety. The topic of todays hearing is the issue of organized retail crime. Which has been rising throughout the country demonstrating a threat to tens of thousands of retailers of all sizes and subjecting employees and custom