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De La Cruz [Homeland Security Committee Hearing]: Right here where I represent has the one of the highest drone detections along the southwest border. The cartel drone detections, just right here in the Rio Grande Valley sector, in fiscal year 2022, was thirty-five thousand drone detections…that are watching our agents, watching our American communities, and leading illegal immigrants through our southwest border…out of thirty-five thousand drone detections, only ten thousand were intercepted.

Do you think the president of the United States is dumb?

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Chris Caberera [Vice President, National Border Patrol Council]: Just the other day…it was about 35-40 degrees, and we had a little boy that was brought up by another group that found him crying on the river. He was four years old. He had one shoe on, he was soaking wet, and his parents were already here in the United States. We see that all the time. We see little girls, five, six, seven years old, that their parents are already here, and they sent them in care of a smuggler…I saw a lady, I think in her late 50s, and she was just pummeled to a bloody pulp…the reason she was pummeled is these river guides tried to get to her twelve year old granddaughter, and she fought them off, but she paid the price for it…if you did mandatory detention, mandatory removal, we wouldn't see this, because we wouldn't be incentivizing people coming over.

Mr Green asks Chief Ortiz, Does DHS have operational control over our entire border?