if confirmed, we are working very closely with selfcom -- southcom to do everything we can. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator cruz. senator mccaskill. >> i wanted to talk to you about detainees. mou in into the one march of 2012 with the afghan government and in an effort to reduce tensions, we signed another mou in march of 2013. it established the afghan review board. that process has resulted in the release of hundreds of detainees that we can directly track to attacks on our forces. believe -- and i believe our government shares my belief -- that this is a flagrant disregard of the principles outlined in the mou. howou have any ideas as to bsa, that we can stop this release of these detainees who have attacked our military? >> thank you for the question. i have not looked at it in those terms. certainly if confirmed i will work with the agency and the authorities that would be required to ensure that we can put some controls on that. i think every military person on the ground is concerned with the rate of detainees released that come back into the fight. i think that is someth

general kelly, the head of southcom, says we let 70% of the drugs that come into the states go by us. we know where they are, but we haven't put the military resources in place to interdict them. and finally, we have to tackle the u.s. demand for drugs because that is what is driving the violence in the neighborhoods that are causing kids to flee. as i conclude, madam president, this year is the 75th anniversary of a very shameful event. the voyage of the st. louis. st. louis was a ship that left germany in 1939 with hundreds of jews on board. it was coming -- these jews were fleeing violence and antisemitism to come to the new world. they were not allowed to disembark in cuba. they were not allowed to disembark in the united states. they were not allowed to disembark in canada. and eventually the ship had to be routed back to europe where research shows that hundreds of those jews who had to get back off in europe died in the holocaust. the testimony this morning is if we without due process send these children home, many will die as a result. the presiding officer: the senator's tim