customs enforcement i want to welcome you all here and thank you for coming today to hear me speak pretoria very excited to be here to give my perspective on the i.c.e., of the mission and its future. very warm think do to the immigration policy institute to allow me to address you here today. i am a big believer a thoughtful policy based analysis and we're fortunate to happen dependent in non-partisan and floors like this where we can have a candid exchange and discussion. open, thoughtful policy exchanges agree hallmark of our country and i think m. p i and its work to a france that kind of exchange for crow a particular set of things 2255 don't think there is anyone in this town were dedicated to the idea that federal immigration policy deserves a serious national treatment. that is often a fight but she has been fighting that battle for a long time and it is, in my view, in fact, in issue that deserves great national attention. her commitment to the issues notwithstanding, all of the passion, politics and difficult progress of for the years has been an referring. doris was commissioner