On August 2 Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to highlight the problems at our Nations borders. We heard testimony from the Government Accountability Office. GAO. about their undercover border crossings over the last 3 years. The GAO agents used fake documents. phony drivers licenses. and claims of U.S. citizenship in order to enter the United States. According to the GAO. their undercover agents got past the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol 42 of 45 times. CBP failed to catch the intruders 93 percent of the time. proving that anyone with a fake identification and a tall tale can get waived right in the United States. The committee also heard some very strong evidence as to why the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
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