Leased under present conditions and what urgency needs to be done about it. Also tonight sanctuary cities and their leaders under fire once again. Another criminal illegal immigrant brutally murdered a 64yearold u. S. Air force veteran in her own home. The suspect, Victor Ramirez was released from custody six times. The issue of illegal immigration is now a hot topic and Republican Voters are insisting that their candidates make their positions clear on the issue. One of the leading republican president ial candidates in this race is our special guest here tonight. Joining us is the governor of wisconsin, scott walker. He is third overall and second in iowa and the latest president ial polling. We will talk about the issues and the debate and the policies he prescribes to return to prosperity and what to do about cyberattacks, radical islam, and of course russia and china as well. Americans under attack overseas. An american consulate she in a new wave of terrorism not part of the worl
The committee on oversight and government reform will come to order and then continue with the second panel of the hearing today. I would ask unanimous consent that congressman john of iowa be allowed to participaparticipa te and flipper does but in todays hearing your without objection, so ordered. Glad you could join us as well as mr. Courtney of connecticut who could also come join us. The second panel is probably the most important people we can you from and we are pleased to welcome mr. Ralph martin whose s chief of police at the santa marina, santa maria, california, please department, has an important perspective and we are pleased and honored you join with us here today. I would also like to allow mr. Courtney to help introduce ms. Wendy hartling. Thank you, chairman chabot and Ranking Member cummings. Again, we are honored today to have Wendy Hartling from connecticut join us here today. She is the quintessential small town america, and she was getting the devoted mother of Ca
[inaudible conversations] come to order we will continue with the second panel. Last year this consent that the congressman from iowa be allowed to fully participate in todays hearing. Without objection is so ordered their glad you can join us also the gentleman from connecticut. The second panel is probably the most important people we can hear from and we are pleased to welcome mr. Ralph martin chief of police from the santa maria California Police department with important perspective and were honored you joined us here today. I would like to allow mr. Courtney to help introduce wendy. Thank you. Again we are honored to have 20 here to join this today she is quintessential smalltown america and a devoted mother of Casey Chadwick who has been mentioned many times in she lost her life one year ago to a homicide that a couple weeks ago came to the goal conclusion with the conviction. I will state that she was leading a very private life with Strong Family connections in the community a
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reform come to order and without objection the chairs authors to declare recess at any time. Preparing for this hearing and, im telling you is hard to keep your cool and preparing for this meeting. Let me tell you the at the heart of why we are here today. Immigration, immigration and Customs Enforcement, ive met with the men and women who work there, the wonderful hardworking dedicated people who do a hard and difficult job. But ive got to tell you whats going on at Homeland Security, whats going on with immigration Customs Enforcement is one of the most infuriating things i think i have seen in this government yet. In a threeyear period immigration and Customs Enforcement has released more than 86,000 criminal aliens into the american public. These are people who were here illegally, got committing a crime, were convicted of that crime in stead of deporting them they were released back out i
Add the department of homeland security, i. C. E. Has no smaller mission, no smaller mission than the National Security Border Security and Public Safety of our citizens. Like any Law Enforcement agency, we deal with serious and difficult matters every day. In the area of immigration, recent estimates are that there are about 11. 2 million Illegal Immigrants in the country. There are approximately 2 million, 2 million undocumented immigrants who are involved in some form or fashion in i. C. E. s administrative process. There are about half a million, 500 thon of those, who are part of active cases in the immigration court. I. C. E. Detention program booked in approximately 300,000 individuals last fiscal year. As you know, we have been funding at the 34,000 bed level for the last couple years. You, the congress, have not only provided the funds to carry out our responsibilities for which were very grateful, but you have also set forth the framework to execute those responsibilities. An