so you're telling me the department of homeland security should hav have eight times the number of the subcommittees dealing with the national security of the united states and the department of homeland security is dealing now with issues of radicalization, people coming into the country but also maybe some that are already here that are homegrown terrorists to the effect of what happened to the boston marathon bombing. they have a specific claim to help protect us from those globals. yet congress doesn't really know what's going on because there are so many people up there that are fighting for the jurisdiction and oversight. that has to change. >> you talked some to the cost of all of this. i was wondering if you could sort of rate the quality of the oversight of the homeland security at this point. the commission didn't do their report card this time around. >> i will look at it by comparison. i think the oversight of the justice department was quite effective. i was there for 18 or 19 years instead of working with congress as i said the judiciary and the intel committees. there wa

of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 360. h.r. 4289, a bill to amend the homeland security act of 2002 to require the undersecretary for management of the department of homeland security to take administrative action to achieve and maintain interoperable communications capabilities among the components of the department of homeland security, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from indiana, mrs. brooks, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. payne, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from indiana. mrs. brooks: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include any extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. brooks: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. brooks: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 4289, the department of homeland security interoperability communications by the oduced gentleman from new jersey, mr. payne. i'm happy to be an origina

so you're telling me the department of homeland security should hav have eight times the number of the subcommittees dealing with the national security of the united states and the department of homeland security is dealing now with issues of radicalization, people coming into the country but also maybe some that are already here that are homegrown terrorists to the effect of what happened to the boston marathon bombing. they have a specific claim to help protect us from those globals. yet congress doesn't really know what's going on because there are so many people up there that are fighting for the jurisdiction and oversight. that has to change. >> you talked some to the cost of all of this. i was wondering if you could sort of rate the quality of the oversight of the homeland security at this point. the commission didn't do their report card this time around. >> i will look at it by comparison. i think the oversight of the justice department was quite effective. i was there for 18 or 19 years instead of working with congress as i said the judiciary and the intel committees. there wa

rethrees the individual we provide the information about the whereabouts of the child to the department of homeland security both immediately prior to and immediately after the release. >> and the names of who they are placed with? >> yes. we provide that information to the department of homeland security. >> after that fact do you track these children to ensure they appear at their imfwrags hearing? >> we do not play that role after the time we release the child then this subsequent issues relating to the immigration proceeding itself will be the responsibilities of the department of justice. >> okay. in a june conference call with congressional staff hhs stated they are not mandated nor will they be checking immigration status of relatives or sponsors for the unaccompanied children. i'm interested in the procedures hhs uses to verify the identity and immigration status of the individuals to whom the unaccompanied child is released. to clarify does hs

so you're telling me the department of homeland security should have eight times the number of subcommittees and full committees when we're both dealing with the national security of the united states? and furthermore, the department of homeland security is dealing now issues of radicalization, people coming into the country but also maybe some that are already here that are home grown terrorists. something in effect of what happened in the boston marathon bombing. they have a specific lane to help protect us from those lone wolves. yet congress doesn't really know what's going on because there are so many people up there that are fighting for jurisdiction and oversight. that has to change. >> ken, you had talked some about the costs of all of this sort of excessive oversight. i was wondering if you could sort of rate the quality of the oversight of homeland security at this point. >> report card? >> yeah a report card. the commission didn't do a report card this time around, so we'll leave that up to you. >> there we go. i'll look at it by comparison. i think the oversight of the justice de

bush administration who served as an intelligence policy adviser in the department of homeland securitye he was authorized to access sensitive information, classification level reserved for the most closely guarded secrets. >> the nsa began mark -- monitoring his e-mails in 2006 after he left the department of homeland security and cofounded a law firm with our other guest, asim ghafoor, a prominent civil rights attorney who has represented clients in terrorism related cases. he is also worked insensibly on capitol hill as a legislative assistant and a lobbyist and the time he was being monitored by the nsa, he was already suing the government after an accidental leak revealed warrantless eavesdropping on his phone calls with his clients. he was awarded more than $20,000 in damages, but the judgment was later reversed. asim ghafoor, your feelings when you learned what was taking place in this call that you got from the intercept about these documents? unbelievablewas will stop in 2004, it was unbelievable, and in 2014, 10 years later, even more unbelievable. when the editor called me an

we would have a team down there that the president sent from the department of defense and the department of homeland security. they just returned this week to jobs the there are any department of defense could do that would be helpful to the border patrol and our customs and border patrol officials down there. i have not seen the report. i assume that is a little ways away. >> the texas national guard are not permitted to arrest people by law. what could they do down there? >> they would serve in a way as observers for the department of public safety. as you know, governor perry has already sent a little over 100 state troopers down to that area to work on the roadways. , we have a good, actually excellent relationship with the texas department of public safety, and friendly state and local law-enforcement across the border. we see them as value added, and we want to make sure we maintain good communications and a good relationship with those folks. >> if the border patrol is overwhelmed in texas with large familiesf children and coming over, why not ask the texas national guard to help with that? sicko actu

rethrees the individual we provide the information about the whereabouts of the child to the department of homeland security both immediately prior to and immediately after the release. >> and the names of who they are placed with? >> yes. we provide that information to the department of homeland security. >> after that fact do you track these children to ensure they appear at their imfwrags hearing? >> we do not play that role after the time we release the child then this subsequent issues relating to the immigration proceeding itself will be the responsibilities of the department of justice. >> okay. in a june conference call with congressional staff hhs stated they are not mandated nor will they be checking immigration status of relatives or sponsors for the unaccompanied children. i'm interested in the procedures hhs uses to verify the identity and immigration status of the individuals to whom the unaccompanied child is released. to clarify does hhs verify until integration status of the sponsors to whom the unidentified children are released? >> we verify the identity of the individual -- >> that's not

held top secret clearance while working at the department of homeland security. >> i was a very conservative reagan loving republican. i just don't know what's in my background. if somebody like me can be surve surveilled, i can only imagine. >> none of five have a criminal record or any known ties to terrorists. they were likely targets because of their muslim background. today the director of national intelligence rejected that saying in a joint statement it is entirely false and u.s. intelligence agencies conduct electronic surveillance of political religious or activist figures solely because they disagree with public policies or based on ethnicity or sexual orientation or religion. but the targets of that surveillance aren't buying it.

former bush administration official who held top secret clearance while working at the department of homeland security. >> i was a very conservative reagan loving republican.

this built on the department of homeland security's unique public-private partnership in securing the nation's critical infrastructure it. codifies the department's critical cybersecurity mission. public-private is important. 90% of the assets in the cyberworld are in the private sector. the department of homeland security works with the other federal government programs -- partners in the collaboratetific effort to secure our nation against cyberattacks and this bill cements d.h.s.'s critical role. and specifically this bill requires the department to collaborate with industry, to facilitate both protection of our infrastructure and our response to a cyberattack. the bill very importantly strengths d.h.s.'s civilian transparent interface to allow realtime cyberthreat sharing across the critical infrastructure sectors. this legislation also strengthens the integrity of our nation's information system and it makes it more difficult for online hackers to compromise consumer and personal information like we saw in target. and prevents hackers from stealing americans' business and intelle

the federal department of homeland security is moving to increase security at overseas wairps direct flights to the

and supervisors, i am with the department of emergency management, and so the item before you is an expense for 1 million dollars from the u.s. department of homeland security the money is from the urban area, funds planning and training and exercises for emergency management agency and fire departments, and police departments and sheriff departments and other public agencies around the region and san francisco, is the chair of the regional organization, that distributes this money. and in the bay area, and the city is also the fiscal agent and that is why it is in front of you, and dhs, the department of homeland security awarded this grant, to the bay area. and about a year ago, as a 22 million dollar grant and back in may, the department funded additional one million dollars and that is 967,000, is going to go to the northern california, regional intelligence center and it is for cyber security equipment, and maintenance agreements. and then the additional 45,000 is going to go to the california office of emergency services, and to coordinate the cyber security around the state on these actually and the no fiscal impact on this grant for our budget, and

is not as safe as it could or should be, because we have not reformed oversight of the department of homeland security. we placed an add using that quote showing that not only do the past dhs secretaries support oversight reform, did you so too does a who's who of the national security commission. it's my pleasure to introduce shivan gore madge, a reporter for "wall street journal." she won the 2006 delta ki award for washington correspondents for her coverage of the national security agency, and in 200, received a special citation, in national magazine writing. she will moderate our panel. >> thank you so much, and thanks for joining us for our, i guess, officially unsexy panel, but congressional reform is probably the most high-profile reform that has never really at all been embraced. in their ten-year report, looking at the current state of place, the commission cites there's actually been a proliferation of committees that are now responsible for counterterrorism, homeland security types of issues. we're now up from 88 to 92, so i guess that's some kind of accomplishment we will discuss here. the

how well have we done at institutionalizing imagine in the department of homeland security cracks >> here is no department of imagination. i do think that the intelligence service, the homeland security folks, the fbi in their own way they do a very good job day in and day out and try to incorporate thinking about it what could be the next threat. how can they apply this integrateand getit into the uni? and it's been tremendous since 9/11 but it's not institutionalized it is more of a culture and way of thinking that needs to go forward. one thing i and the report that got my attention was the american public interest in this topic and the unwillingness to fund the counterterrorism operations and i think that would be a huge mistake that goes again on a sunday show that we spend too much money into the big monster of it's not worth it. i would argue it still is worth it and i don't want to be the fearmonger kind of guy that when i get the press briefings it's very clear that it hasn't gone away and in some respects it's become a great threat. they have more capability to bring it insi

provide the information about the whereabouts of the child to the department of homeland security both immediately prior to and immediately after the release. >> and the names of who they are placed with? >> yes. we provide that information to the department of homeland security. >> after that fact do you track these children to ensure they appear at their imfwrags hearing? >> we do not play that role after the time we release the child then this subsequent issues relating to the immigration proceeding itself will be the responsibilities of the department of justice. >> okay. in a june conference call with congressional staff hhs stated they are not mandated nor will they be checking immigration status of relatives or sponsors for the unaccompanied children. i'm interested in the procedures hhs uses to verify the identity and immigration status of the individuals to whom the unaccompanied child is released. to clarify does hhs verify until integration status of the sponsors to whom the unidentified children are released? >> we verify the identity of the individual -- >> that's not the

one of the five served in the department of homeland security in the bush administration. the others include an attorney, two professors and a civil rights official. >>> breaking overnight, the v.a. now facing more trouble after whistle-blowers detail alleged retribution within the agency. at a house committee hearing power whistle-blowers testified suggesting transfers, harassment, altered records and long breaks between paychecks were paid back for sounding alarms within the system. revelations got lawmakers even more frustrated. >> talk is keep. real solutions are hard to find. it is clear to me that the v.a., as it is structured today, is fundamentally incapable of making real changes in the culture. >> many of these problems with the v.a. only came to light earlier this year when cnn exposed dozens of veterans had died while on secret waiting lists for care. >>> senate democrats are going to do battle with the supreme court, they're drafting legislation to provide for-profit companies to provide and pay for contraceptives. it's essentially a decision to overinside the

of national security. after that, a discussion about congressional oversight of the department of homeland security. >> we rafted an amendment that said this -- under 702 of the act, you can collect data and we now know from the snowden disclosures that it's a lot of data. nd they also include the >> the basic premise of the dot-com act is when the nation puts its last control oversight over the do main system that we know what we're getting ourselves into. >> monday night at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" on c-span 2. >> fox news national security analyst k.t. mcfarland says president obama's foreign policy unmitigated disaster. or about 25 minutes. >> alyssa, i've got to tell you that when you wrote that column about president obama's west point speech and compared him to a krispy kreme dough nut. krispy kreme doughnuts wrote back to say no way. my dear friend introduced me. i got up and i said right. [laug] news has now started hiring brunettes.

again, this should be able to come directly from the department of homeland security. it's not. but this is what i'm finding out. in louisiana, the i.c.e. office has been -- has a backlog of juvenile cases, cases involving mines. first of all, it had already about 2,000 of those cases in louisiana alone before this wave upon wave of minor illegal aliens reached crisis proportions. now, adding onto those 2,000 cases, 1,956 to be exact, there are now over 1,200 new juvenile cases in hughes lewis. these are unaccompanied children coming into the country illegally and then being brought into louisiana, in most cases turned over to the custody of a family member or a sponsor. and many of these family members are themselves illegal. we're not a border state. we're not texas. we're not arizona or new mexico. we're not one of the states most affected. and yet even louisiana has this significant impact, very, very troubling numbers. i talked to folks at the hersch coliseum. found out that the international association of fairs and exhibitions -- a trade a. ssociation for they are sorts of

he is also asking the department of homeland security to give him recommendations on what other steps he can take while bypassing congress. >> the department of homeland security is going to beef up security at airports because of new explosives that may get by screening systems. al qaeda terrorists on the arabian peninsula are reportedly developing these explosives. u.s. officials say there is no imminent threat or plot. >>> moments of terror for passengers on a united airlines flight from chicago to los angeles. an emergency chute opened in the plane during the flight. passengers snapped pictures of the slide inflated in the back of the 737. nobody was hurt. the pilot had to drop 20,000 feet in 10 minutes just in case the plane lost pressure. the plane then made an unscheduled stop in wichita, kansas. passengers were understandably startled. >> it was kind of muffled so i heard a loud sound. >> a big bang and a hiss and they had a pan cdc look and quickly took the carts and ran back. and then we all turned around and the whole back cabinet, uhm, part of the plane where they sat was

capability of some of these elements to develop weapons that could be thwarted by our current security systems. >> officials tell cnn there is no imminent threat or blot. the department of homeland security is working to address the new plot. >> the department of homeland security is regularly reviewing our security procedures to adapt to the threat that we -- that is faced by our transportation system. as advisories are required to adequately inform the traveling public, we'll make those announcements. >> peter king discussed the threat on abc's this week. >> a number of airports do not have the types of security they should have. anyone that will be having someone who can fly to the u.s., they have to increase their security, we're going to be pushing it, but overseas airport security is a real concern. >> this is the man believed to be behind the threat. aqap master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri. asiri and terrorists trained under him will improve designs of new explosive devices, such as shoe bombs that could fool screening systems. the threat has grown all the more severe as chaos in syria and iraq has created a safe haven from terror groups to train, plot and recruit western

this to take this seriously to reorganize the massive bureaucracy that they have on the department of homeland security that is bigger oversight today of what we have are oversight for the department of defense. 500 billion-dollar defense program with a smaller number of committees overseeing and in the department of homeland security where we have 92 different committees and of committees. fragmented dysfunctional, potentially disruptive to our national security. with akamai look forward to the questions and answers and i appreciate the opportunity. >> thank you, jim. >> are there any other commissioners? >> let me just say one thing. i hope you get a sense of the practice grew past because everyone always asked how did you reach unanimity on a reported when you look at a commission that was basically designed to fail splitting it evenly and lectionary and how did that happen and i think that you can get a sense of how it happened as to what comes with the universally wonderful experience and certainly one that gave us a lot of pride and also one that was very were warning and i want to mention one th

kean and former deputy attorney general jamie gorelick call for major reforms to the department of homeland security there are ninety two committees with jurisdiction over the department of homeland security that is dysfunctional and you merging reporting to ninety different people you get nothing done. gets nothing done it's partly because of this congress is going to reform itself both the congress members and the witnesses pointed to this overabundance of oversight as a major threat to america's ability to identify and thwart potential terrorist threats using a chart to display the dysfunction throughout the hearing however al qaeda and the ongoing war in afghanistan as well as isis threats in iraq were only briefly mentioned instead congress members highlighted a slew of other issues they believe are the number one security threat the threat of lone wolf border security why should congress rely on the end is a metadata collection program but the site. be working with the authorization and use of military force border security has been dominating media headlines and political debate over the past

and women that work up their work on committees that oversee the department of agriculture or education or the department of homeland security. and now with things changing so rapidly in the world, with isis taking over large swaths of territory, cyber security coming at us like a speeding bullet every day, we need a department that can act quickly and has vision and a budget to take on these new threats. 92 still congress has different committees and subcommittees to oversee this. that is unsustainable. we need a smaller committee and an integrated committee, committee with experts that can help set the budget and the vision for the department of homeland security as it enters these new threats and the challenges of these new threats. thirdly it is important because as congress makes all these different people come up to 92 different committees and subcommittees we waste their valuable time. we waste the resources. inwaste millions of dollars taxpayers money and we hear congress all the time talk about waste, fraud, and abuse. how bad that is. here is a great example of waste, fraud, and abuse. and how congress could do it

t you are telling me the department of homeland security should have eight times the number of subcommittees and full committees when we are both with this? the department of homeland security is dealing with issues peopleradicalization of coming into the country but maybe some that are already here that our homegrown terrorists, something in effect of what happened in the boston marathon bombing. there are so many people up there fighting for jurisdiction. that has to change. >> can you talk some about the costs of all of this? ? am excessive oversight wondering if you could rate the quality of the oversight of homeland security at this point, a report card. i will look at it by comparison with my experience. the oversight of the justice department was quite effective when i was therefore eight teen-19 years. 18, 19 years. for ,t was vibrant, strong knowledgeable. you do not see that when it comes to dhs. i was dealing with it when i was homeland security adviser and it was not any of those things. not because there were not members who cared a lot because it was a part-time occupation. it

we received a definitive plan to date, we have never received one communication from department of homeland security. everything we've gotten, we had to get from the local office and most of the time we have to reach out to get that information. >> if they don't go to your city, where would you have them go? >> well, that's up for the boarder board boarder patrol and department of homeland security to come up with a place that can sufficiently sustain the services these immigrants need. >> how many -- >> they are in federal custody. >> how much can you handle? how many could you handle over the course of several days or weeks? is it a numbers issue right now or is one too many at this point? >> no, no, it's a numbers issue. in fact, that's a very important piece. originally we were told 500 every 7 two hours and then 300 every 7 two hours and we simply told them along with the boarder patrol office that is beyond the capacity. once they told us it was 140 every 7 two hours, we told the public that that is within the capacity of the local boarder patrol and we would be putting a plan together to assi

mend the homeland security act of 2002 to authorize department of homeland security to establish a social media working group and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended? members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 375, the nays are 19. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended and the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished combiss is vote -- this is the -- >> the unfinished business is vote on the motion of the the gentlewoman from indiana, ms. brooks, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 4289. the clerk: union calendar number 360, h.r. 4289, a bill to am

department of homeland security. coping with the policy challenges, the overheated politics on the streets. the logistics of organizing the movement of this many humans who are in dire straits in order to process them in some kind of orderly fashion. that is all being handled by the department of homeland security. and that's just one of the many challenges we've got, even if you're just looking at the border. over the course of the past year on this show, we've reported here about something related to the fbi, specifically about what happens when fbi agents shoot people. we're the only cable news show that's covered this in detail. but there's this incredibly troubled record. the fbi has done an internal review of the 150 different cases where fbi agents shot someone. in all 150 of those cases, the fbi internal review found that the shooting was justified. there were 150 for 150, according to the documents that we can get from the fbi, the fbi has never ever had a bad shoot, not in almost 20 years. we covered that st

first the secretary, jeh johnson, of homeland security was sworn in on december 23rd, 2014 as a force secretary of the department of homeland security. prior to joining dhs, he served as general counsell for the department of defense where he served as part of the senior management team and led civilian lawyers across the department. as general councsel, he oversaw systems in guantanamo bay and we talked privately that you have traveled many times down to my home state of texas and seen this crisis firsthand. we thank you for doing that. he is accompanied today, this morning, by mr. greg fugate, at minim -- the administrator of the federal service agency, and mr. vitiello and mr. fugate will not be here to answer any opening questio statements but will be answering any questions we have. the chair now recognizes mr. johnson for five minutes. >> members of this committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today about our efforts to address the recent rise of unaccompanied children and others crossing our border in the rio grande valley. with me today to answer questions are craig fugate, the administrator

well have we done at institutionalizing information in a department as sprawling as the department of homeland security? >> well, i think there is no department of imagination. i do think that the intelligence service, the homeland security folks, the fbi, in their own way, they do a very good job day in and day out, difficult circumstances, and i do think in their own way try to incorporate thinking about, okay, what could be the next threat? how could they apply this threat and get it into the united states? it's ratcheted up tremendously since 9/11, but it's not institutionalized, it's more of a culture and a way of thinking that needs to go forward. i think one thing in the report that got my attention was the american public's fatigue and waning interest in this topic and the unwillingness to fund terrorism operations. and i think that would be a huge mistake. i was on, again, a sunday show, and i think it was ted koppell that we spend too much money, it's a big monster and it n's n worth it. i think it is worth it, but when i get the threat briefings, and it's clear that threat is not going away.

so it's department of homeland security of which the border patrol is a part. t's the department of health and human services which has a responsibility under the wilberforce law to take these children in 72 hours, more or less. unfortunately, in some cases more. and the law is the 72 hours, and it's the department of justice to do the -- have more judges, more due process. so it's -- the supplemental goes a very long way to resolving many of the challenges that are there, including sending an important message that america is a great country and our greatness is about being humanitarian and stopping trafficking and all that, but also we won't be taken advantage of by using that good bill, our good nature for people to exploit the situation. >> there was -- especially when you first became speaker, there was a contention in the democratic caucus, very vocal, of impeachment against president bush. we're hearing the same call. how did you go about your decision to say that was off the table at the time versus what we're hearing now from the hard right and the repu

simca for a civil rights attorney fassel gill a pakistani born lawyer who served in the department of homeland security nihad awad executive director of the council on islamic american relations hooshang amirahmadi an iranian american professor and political analyst and last saeed a former professor and palestinian rights activists the office of the director of national intelligence and the department of justice have released a joint statement in response to the revelations stating it is entirely false that u.s. intelligence agencies conduct electronic surveillance of political religious or activist figure solely because they disagree with public policies or criticize the government or for exercising constitutional rights i was joined earlier by one of the men on that list fassel gil i first asked him why he believes the government would want to monitor him. that is the million dollar question in my mind right now i have absolutely no idea what in my background could lead somebody to believe that i would harbor those views or have those feelings or that i'm somebody that should be targeted i just have

instead, for the first time since the creation of the department of homeland security, our homeland security appropriations bill is not even going to the house floor. the approach taken in this legislation shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue before us. this isn't a border security crisis. this is a humanitarian crisis. we don't need to deploy the national guard or surge our border capacity because we're not failing to catch individuals as they cross. in fact, these young people are turning themselves in. now, we do have some agreement on the need to expedite consideration of the claims of these matters for asylum or other forms of relief. but a $12.9 million, the bill falls short of even the administration's modest request for more immigration judges. instead of focusing on this area of agreement, the majority relies on a questionable and controversial rewriting of the wilber force law. enacted in 2008 to deal with child trafficking. my own view is that the proposal incorporated in the bill both fails to address deficiencies in our present screening of mexican youths for signs

what they want to do is ask congress for more leeway and say can't dhs, department of homeland security use their discretion more to send these kids home quicker because in reality, even though they have to go through this lengthy process, the vast majority of them will be sent home anyway. you look at it, seems like a huge waste of time and money, but it does protect some kids and that was the cause of it in the first place. >> michelle, appreciate it. whether or not you think administration has the right answer to the problem with the money, it's hard to imagine they did the best job of explaining things. here is josh earnest yesterday. >> these children will go through the immigration court process and if they are found to not have a legal basis for remaining in this country, they will be returned. i mean, it is fair to say that it's unlikely that most of the kids who go through this process will not qualify, it's unlikely that host of the kids who go through this process will qualify for human for yin relief, which is to say most of them will not have a legal basis, will not be foun

the department of justice has a long history of working with the department of homeland security to investigate and prosecute humans of smugglers. our u.s. attorney's office charged almost 3,000 attendants with a crime and bringing in and harboring criminal and a certain aliens. in the four fiscal years from 2009 to 2013, the u.s. attorney's office filed charges against over 15,000 individuals for these crimes. and as of june 30 of this year, the department filed alien smuggling charges against more than 2,000 defendants in federal district court in this fiscal year alone. the statistics are emblematic of the work of th but trouble pross and law-enforcement agents do that and force the nation's immigration law. the department of justice continues to work collaboratively with the department of homeland security to facilitate investigations like the one secretary johnson described that may lead to the prosecution of those responsible for the illegal entry of individuals including minors into the united states. just two weeks ago i met with the attorneys that represent the southwest border distric

>> reading from a department of homeland security document. >> yes. right. >> also, not only be here since 2007 and be under the age of 16 when you came, but you had to be in school, you had have to graduated from high school, you have to have obtained a general education development certificate or be honorably discharged va of the coast guard or armed forces of the united states. you can't do all of that. unless you were here before 2007. so, without objection, include the homeland's eligible for deferred action in the list of items. let me ask you, is it not true that president obama has deported more migrants than any president in recent history? >> , that, mr. chairman. >> matter of fact, some have called him the dough porter in chief -- the deporter in chief. now, it seems to me that congress has unclean hands here, in its failure to act to reform our immigration system. and in the absence of that failure, what has been congress' successful role is to dramatically increase borders and custom enforcement to the point that we have had the most deten

you work for the department of homeland security. you know this nation is under constant threat. you of all people must understand sometimes investigators look in places and they don't find anything, but it's important for them to look. >> absolutely. i have no problem with surveillance. surveillance needs to happen, but there has to be a reason for it. there has to be something in my background that would lead someone to believe that okay, this person should be suspected of questionable cyactivities. i worked for the american muss lick council and after that i had my security clearance and it was proven it was disclosed. there was nothing there in my background and the other thing i would say lastly is the fisa court has a very high success rate, 99.6% or something ridiculous like that. if you were to go to any county in the united states and look at the success rate for obtaining a search warrant for any crime, breaking and entering, robbery, it would not be that high. clearly there is something wrong with the problem. >> you think it's because you're a muslim? >> i can't think

in 2002 when dick armey introduced the legislation that created what is now the department of homeland security, he included these ident tical provisions in the bill that created the department of homeland security. in 2007, we voted almost unanimously for the elements in the 2008 bill that were -- it was so uncontroversial that it passed by a voice vote. and each bill was signed into by the president of the united states. why? because children are special. they are especially vulnerable. when you look at the crisis at our border at the humanitarian crisis at our border, we know how those children are getting brought here. they aren't getting brought here willy willny. it's a coordinated effort by a vast criminal enterprise. the same vast criminal enterprise of drug cartels that bring the drugs into this country that are bringing and smuggling the children here. and we need to know, do they have -- i just asked the american public. if we saw a child run out of a house across the street from where you live and the house was burning down, would we send the child back into the house until we repai