Crane [Homeland Security Committee]: Do you think this secretary [Mayorkas] is protecting the fifty states against invasion?
Pearlstein: The word invasion in that [Invasion] clause is not in reference to migrants who are not trying to overthrow the government of the United States.
Crane: Mrs. Pearlstein, have you ever studied unconventional warfare? Any idea what that term means?
Pearlstein: I've heard that term used. I'm not an expert in unconventional warfare.
Crane: Do you think in any wild and unprecedented strategy in the history of the world, one of our adversaries might try and send their soldiers to infiltrate our country, using our wide-open border, not putting them in uniforms, and having them come and present themselves in front of our Border Patrol Agents, and tell our Border Patrol Agents, 'oh, we're just innocent immigrants, we just want a better life'. Do you think that's even possible?
Pearlstein: Might anyone ever lie at the border? Yes.
Crane: So it is possible that tens of thousands; you know that's how many we're getting a day. Are you aware of that?
Pearlstein: I'm not aware of any statistics.
Crane: It's about ten to fifteen thousand…that's more than a combat division, coming to our southern border from a hundred and sixty countries, some of which are adversarial, and I'm going to tell you right now, unconventional warfare has been used since the beginning of time. These people aren't stupid. They're using access to our country to bring in individuals who want to do harm to it. I've been in the classified briefs; it's a fact, ma'am.