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Morning, this hearing will come to order. I will ask my written Opening Statement be entered in the record. Without objection. I want to welcome secretary kelly. This is a hearing on the department of Homeland Securitys fiscal year 2018 budget. This is the third time secretary kelly has appeared before this committee. The second time as secretary of the department and, again, we welcome you and appreciate your service to this country, many, many years of it. In lieu of my written Opening Statement, i just want to make a couple comments. Im by vocation, im an accountant. So ive gone through budget meetings many, many times. First, i want to just talk about the history of the budget of the department of Homeland Security. Were not quite ready for the chart ....
Over 3,000 of our fellow americans. And the porous out of ring of border security. The hijackers passed through the u. S. Border security a combined total of 68 times without arousing suspicion. More recently culeafy attempted to conduct a Suicide Attack in 2012. He had been in the country since 1999. On a tourist visa but never left. Another man arrested in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, who help destroy evidence was able to return to the United States despite being out of status on his student visa. Certainly its an important element of keeping the homeland secure. A widely sited 2006 hispanic study indicated that as many as 40 of all illegal aliens do not cross the desert in arizona, california, or texas but come through the front door at our land, sea, and armirports of ity with our permission. They re ....
The female celebrity accounts that were hacked. From the cloud, from icloud and c nbc had a report that china likely attacked icloud accounts and then in 2015, last year, apple had to release a patch in response to concerns that there had been brute force attacks on icloud accounts. So im anticipating, well see, that apple will take further steps to encrypt and protect not only its operating system that it has today, but also, the protection as well as the icloud accounts. And ill just close with this. I have on my iphone all kinds of messaging apps. That are fully encrypted. Some better than others. Some were designed in the United States. A bunch of them were designed in other countries. And im not i wouldnt do anything wrong on my iphone but if i were a terrorist, i could use any one of those apps and communicate securely and there wouldnt be anything that the u. S. Government, not the fbi, not the congress or the president , co ....