francis cissna this morning that u.s. i guess in 2017 and served as director of immigration policy within the dhs office of pocy ding which time he was selected for detail to the u.s. senate judiciary committee where he worked on immigration related legislation. prior to back a mischievous acting director and deputy director of immigration border security policy in the dhs office. the cherner recognizes deputy commissioner said three for five minutes. >> thank you. chairman nick sally, ranking member vela, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the efforts of u.s. customs and border protection to achieve our strategic and operational border security objectives. my fellow witnesses have decades of experience and am grateful to work with such dedicated professionals to secure the homeland. tactical infrastructure including physical barriers and complementary capabilities have long been a critical component of cbp's multilayer risk-based approach to securing our southern border. the recently pass

director cissna, two more questions. those claiming a false asylum claim, you talk in your written testimony about how there is no teeth to that. can you talk about that? and also in your written testimony you talk about you are concerned about people filing now, realizing this loophole and they've been interior of the united states now for maybe up to ten years, but they realizing if they say they have a credible fear gives them a work permit and this is now ha work around for them being illegal to being legal using this loophole? >> yes, there are many such loop holes. one you just referred to this is for regular asylum cases. it is well-known if you are file for asylum and six months go by and we haven't heard your case you get a work permit. a lot of people do this on purpose because they know the bag lock is huge and they can wander around working freely in the economy as long as it takes to hear their case. many of those people have legitimate claims, many don't. and the people that don't clog up the system for the

cissna for five minutes. >> chairman and ranking member pleased to be here today along with my colleagues over border security. that means physical control we have all seen prototypes that are dangerous and exhausting work and other evidence of physical aspects. i suggest true border security is much more than that. certainly to incorporate the administrative process to govern the entry and exit behind the border wall there must be a wall of law. as evidenced to understand this problem i referred to the future act that the chairwoman and those all cosponsors of that bill. and for those who regain control of the border with the immigration system that responds to the allegations. now i'd like to mention the backlog that the number of us a lot more -- asylum filings has tripled between 15 and 17 those numbers are the highest annual number even over 20 years. u.s. eis has a backlog of 313,000 cases of critical proportions to our ability to properly screen applicants while they wait for consequence of this 70% is that those true asylum-seekers are lost in the applications that are not meritor