This poses a significant public safety risk and national security threat. For my constituents. this is not just an abstract issue but is something that is a part of their everyday lives. The brave men and women of the Border Patrol do all they can with the tools they are provided. but they are restricted by outdated strategies and political leadership that does not have the resolve to let agents do what they do bestsecure the border. In addition. not only is our strategy based off of outdated information. but the metrics used to measure that strategy are inconsistent and incomplete. The last time DHS measured security along the border. which was in 2010. a mere 44 percent of it was under operational control. Recently. DHS claimed they have been over 80 percent effective along the border. yet the best analytical research. using all available data. puts the true probability of apprehension much closer to 50 percent. Likewise. a month ago. in a hearing I led as the chairwoman of the Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee. the Border Patrol confirmed they have only a little over 50 percent situational awareness of the border. That means. of illicit activity coming across our. roughly. 2.000mile southern border. we only know of a little over half of it. We will never secure the border unless we have a full awareness of where we are getting beat by the cartels.
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