The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on Maritime Security and order that the subcommittees meeting to examine the challenges the United States Border Patrol agents and u. S. Customs and Border Protection officers facing carrying out their mission to secure nations borders. Before beginning to discover the moment of silence for rohingya martinez killed in the line of duty last year and van horn, texas. Agents and officers of u. S. Customs and Border Protection work every single day to secure our nation often in rugged terrain sometimes in very remote areas far away from the entities of modern life are the exposed the blistering heat of the arizona desert in the brutal cold places like montana. Working at the port of entry than the women of cpb are the driving force the kind are for security operations. The nation is fortunate. The agents willing to take significant risk on every single shift to ensure that cartel do not smuggle drugs and dangerous individuals across the borde