Chairman McClintock [Terrorist Entry Through Southwest Border hearing]: On January 20th, we will mark the third anniversary of the Biden executive orders that opened our borders to the world, by halting construction of the border wall, rescinding the Remain in Mexico Policy, and forbidding ICE from enforcing court-ordered deportations. Since that day, more than 5.7 million illegal aliens from over one hundred and sixty countries have illegally crossed our border. Mr. Biden has released over 2.6 million of them, a population larger than the entire state of New Mexico, into the United States, in violation of our immigration laws.

Chairman McClintock: Clearly, very bad actors are entering our country through our open southwest border, and I'm afraid something terrible is brewing. Either a coordinated terrorist attack by elements that have entered over the last few years, or the kind of cartel violence that has now become so common in Mexico.

Nadler: Attacks by foreign-born terrorists on US soil since 9/11 are vanishingly rare.

[so let's just keep the border wide-open and see what happens]

Bensman [Center for Immigration Studies]: Expect those screening programs to be degraded indefinitely, because vast numbers of special interest aliens are currently pouring through the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama. Usually ten thousand migrants or less pass through the Gap. In 2023, however, three hundred thousand plus have gone through the Gap…seventy-five thousand came in [the United States] just the last nine months. DHS cannot possibly vet or even interview a fraction of these numbers, raising the terrorism risk.

Biggs: This notion about being concerned about terrorists entering through the southwest border, which is absolutely open; that's somehow a fiction or speculation, is probably one of the most asinine pieces of testimony I've heard in congress.

[that was testimony of democrat witness from Cato, Mr. Nowrasteh]

Jayapal: I'm happy to see that the Biden administration is on pace to welcome the highest number of refugees since 2016.

Tiffany: Parole is a very specific concept in the law here in the United States of American, that is supposed to be done on a case-by-case basis. That was been wiped out by fiat, without passing a law to change the law that enabled parole back in 1954. They have been breaking the law….The reason illegal entries have been going down, is because they've ignored the law.