mr. aguilar, if you have answered or not. if you do not know the answer, you can give it to me in writing. i have talked in my earlier comments in regard to some of the apprehension data that has been compiled from the year 2010. what i would like to know is what kind of data we have now concerning 2011. i would like to know, basically, how many people have been apprehended for illegal entry into the u.s. on all our borders. >> absolutely. >> you might want to press that button. >> this one here? >> yes. >> that is a very good question i will place it in context by stating the following. the peak year of activity that we had for illegal border crossing incursions was fiscal year 2000. it was my first year as chief of the border patrol in arizona. in that year, it was a total of 1.6 million apprehensions of illegal crossings that the u.s. border patrol made. this year, we are sitting at about 257,000 total. we are about two months out to the end of the fiscal year. that represents an 80% decline from the peak year of apprehens

mr. aguilar, if you have answered or not.answer, you can give it to me in writing. i have talked in my earlier comments in regard to some of the apprehension data that has been compiled from the year 2010. what i would like to know is what kind of data we have now concerning 2011. i would like to know, basically, how many people have been apprehended for illegal entry into the u.s. on all our borders. >> absolutely. >> you might want to press that button. >> this one here? >> yes. >> that is a very good question i will place it in context by stating the following. the peak year of activity that we had for illegal border crossing incursions was fiscal year 2000. it was my first year as chief of the border patrol in arizona. in that year, it was a total of 1.6 million apprehensions of illegal crossings that the u.s. border patrol made. this year, we are sitting at about 257,000 total. we are about two months out to the end of the fiscal year. that represents an 80% decline from the peak year of apprehension. almost 250 -- of th

mr. aguilar was also elected president of the southern arizona executive association. thank you for being with us here today. we are very interested in your comments. >> thank you, governor. i must say that as a young man being raised in south texas as an individual actually raised on the border of our great united states and one who has spent over 33 years serving our country and protecting the border of the united states, it is, indeed an honor to be here today to speak to the governors of these great united states about the state of the borders and what is occurring along our nation's borders. the fact that it became dhs is something very personal for us. it is because of the attacks we suffered on the horrendous day of 9/11. we have come a long way. as governor o'malley said,we have had some tremendous achievements and successes that we can all be proud of. but even with osama bin laden being there, we still have -- being dead, we still have four vulnerabilities, threats, and risks that our nation will continue to face on an ongoing basis. that is why it is critica

mr. aguilar, if you have answered or not. if you do not know the answer, you can give it to me in writing. i have talked in my earlier comments in regard to some of the apprehension data that has been compiled from the year 2010. what i would like to know is what kind of data we have now concerning 2011. i would like to know, basically, how many people have been apprehended for illegal entry into the u.s. on all our borders. >> absolutely. >> you might want to press that button. >> this one here? >> yes. >> that is a very good question i will place it in context by stating the following. the peak year of activity that we had for illegal border crossing incursions was fiscal year 2000. it was my first year as chief of the border patrol in arizona. in that year, it was a total of 1.6 million apprehensions of illegal crossings that the u.s. border patrol made. this year, we are sitting at about 257,000 total. we are about two months out to the end of the fiscal year. that represents an 80% decline from the peak year of apprehens