Air and Marine Division did not stay parked right along the border. The Air and Marine Division has assets down in Colombia. They have assets in the Caribbean. assets in the Eastern Pacific. assets at various points. because the whole point of the Air and Marine Division was both with boats and air to be able to follow in particular drug traffickers. other traffickers of contraband in high value or mass targets in the sense of illegal immigration or of terrorism. But when we put the air assets underneath CBP and they put them under Border Patrol. the nature of what we were doing with our Air and Marine assets have fundamentally changed. As the now ranking member of the Border Subcommittee and a member of the Homeland Security Committee since its creation. I have spent a lot of time on this issue. as well as being head of Speaker HASTERTS drug task force.
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