along with congressman mike mccole of texas, i led the effort in congress to safe lyly erase that program from elimination. moreover, tsa has enhanced searches of luggage parcels and cargo transported to the u.s. main land for illegal narcotics and weapons. finally, this year, the office of national drug control policy within the white house published the first ever caribbean borders narcotic strategy as retiredquired by congress. collectively, these efforts produced remarkable results in 2014 there were 681 homicides in puerto rico. that is 40% lower than in 2011. 30% lower than in 2012 and nearly 25% lower than in 2013. you and your colleagues at dhs should feel very proud of this accomplishment because you played major role. nevertheless, as i'm sure you would be the first one to say we cannot relent. rather, we must sustain and build upon this hard earned success puerto rico still has and murder rate that is far higher than any u.s. state or in the district of colombia with two homicides each day. so i would like you to give you an opportunity to tell the committee what i.c.e. is curr