A core attribute of sorn vernty is maintaining control over u. S. Bond driz. This failure has allowed millions of foreign nationals to enter the suts United States illegally and allowed huge amounts of narcotics to be smuggled into the country. The sorry state of affairs has had significant consequences for american taxpayers, for victims of violent crime, and for the rule of law. It is time to secure the border. A central issue of the president s 2006 campaign was the promise to build, quote, an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall, end quote. The administration is taking steps to fulfill that promise and the subcommittee on National Security is closely monitoring this process. The president issued an executive order on january 25th for the department of Homeland Security to, quote, take all appropriate steps to immediately plan, design, and construct the physical wall along the southern border end quote. On mar 17th they for prototype designs as the
A core attribute of sorn vernty is maintaining control over u. S. Bond driz. This failure has allowed millions of foreign nationals to enter the suts United States illegally and allowed huge amounts of narcotics to be smuggled into the country. The sorry state of affairs has had significant consequences for american taxpayers, for victims of violent crime, and for the rule of law. It is time to secure the border. A central issue of the president s 2006 campaign was the promise to build, quote, an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall, end quote. The administration is taking steps to fulfill that promise and the subcommittee on National Security is closely monitoring this process. The president issued an executive order on january 25th for the department of Homeland Security to, quote, take all appropriate steps to immediately plan, design, and construct the physical wall along the southern border end quote. On mar 17th they for prototype designs as the
Recess at any time. Or attribute of maintaining sovereignty is to maintain and control our borders. This failure has allowed millions of foreign nationals to enter the u. S. Illegally an narcotics to enter our country illegally. It is time to secure the border. Essential issues of the president s 2006 campaign was the promise to build and impenetrable physical tall beautiful southern border wall. The administration is taking steps to fulfill the promise and the subcommittee on National Security is closely monitoring this process. The president issued an executive order on january 25 with the department of Homeland Security to take all appropriate steps to immediately plan, design and construct a physical wall along the border. On march 17 dhs requested to request for proposals as the first step in fulfilling the requirements. Dhs is expected to use the prototypes to inform actual construction. Border walls have seen success in recent years. They have. [inaudible] the construction of th
Mr. Blanco the district of maryland, the district of new jersey, the departments commitment to bringing justice to these communities and these acts of violence against ms13 is obvious. In these districts, prosecutors secured the convictions of 22, 6 and 14 ms13 members respectively. Many defendants in those cases received life sentences while other received sentences of decades in prison. And just last month, prosecutors in the Eastern District of virginia secured the guilty plea of an ms13 member who admitted his participation in a murder committed as part of a gang initiation. Our work, however, does not stop at the border. The f. B. I. , h. S. I. And our organized crime and gang section lead investigations into foreignbased ms13 leaders responsible for violence here in the United States. For example, the f. B. I. s transnational antigang tag unit, located in ell is a have a dore, guatemala and honduras, supply internationally generated information to many domestic ms13 investigation
Good morning, everybody. Normally we dont start until the Ranking Member is here but people have scheduling problems today and i consulted with the staff and i can go ahead without waiting. Thank you for being here. The topic of todays hearing involves the crisis thats growing and spreading in the communities across the nation. Existence in the 1980s and its made a reputation as a perpetrator of extreme and often gruesome violence. This organization has been dubbed the worlds most dangerous game and some say that it would be a terrorist organization. They kill high rate and control. Unfortunately, over the past two years, this terrifying model. So far this year theyve been publicly linked to dozens of highprofile killings, rapes and assaults across the country for a washington, d. C. To Houston Texas and a lot of other communities as well. There are many, many more that simply havent been reported. Let me give the Committee Just a few examples of this the brutality and the inhumanity.