Border Security
Keeping our borders secure from potential terrorists, illegal immigrants, and illicit contraband, is vital to the safety and security of the United States. The Committee on Homeland Security supports efforts to gain and maintain operational control of the entire border as well as vigorously enforce our nation’s immigration laws.
Going forward, the Committee will continue to oversee efforts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to secure the border by ensuring that an effective combination of staffing, technology, and infrastructure is utilized to protect the more than 8,000 miles of land and maritime areas along both the northern and southern borders.
While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to securing borders as vast and geographically diverse as those separating the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, the Obama Administration has yet to present a comprehensive plan for securing our borders. The Committee continues to call for DHS to present such a plan that ensures DHS gains and maintains operational control of the border and that Federal immigration laws are fully enforced.
Subcommittee Hearing: Eleven Years Later: Preventing Terrorists from Coming to America
Homeland Security Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Terrorist Travel
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee Hearing: U.S.-Caribbean Border: Open Road for Drug Traffickers and Terrorists
Homeland Security Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Evolving Threats to Border Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
House Passes Homeland Security Legislation to Improve Info Sharing and Border Security, Protect Veterans Rights
Homeland Security Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee to Hold Field Hearing
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Markup: H.R. 3857, H.R. 4005, H.R. 3173, and H.R. 2356
Homeland Security Committee to Consider WMD, Other Legislation to Protect the Homeland
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee to Examine Use of National Guard to Secure the Border -- TOMORROW
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee to Examine Visa Overstays and Terrorism -- TOMORROW
Homeland Security Border and Maritime Security Panel to Hold Hearing on Supply Chain Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
House Homeland Security Committee Concludes Active and Productive 2011
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee Hearing: A Call to Action: Narco-Terrorism's Threat to the Southern U.S. Border
H.R. 3173
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security Committee (***updated with witness names, additional hearing)
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Joint Subcommittee Hearing: Mérida Part Two: Insurgency and Terrorism in Mexico
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Homeland Security Committee Passes Transportation and Border Security Bills
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Newsday: Immigrant advocate protest at King's office
Subcommittee Hearing: Ten Years after 9/11: Can Terrorists Still Exploit our Visa System?
** Location Change ** A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Newsday: No peace in national immigration debate
King, Miller Statement on Obama Administration Decision to Limit Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws
King and Miller Statements on Obama Administration Decision to Extend National Guard Deployment on Southwest Border
Subcommittee Markup: H.R. 1299, H.R. 1922, and H.R. 915
Subcommittee Markup: H.R. 1299, H.R. 1922, and H.R. 915
UPDATED -- The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Republicans Introduce Bill to Secure Border on Federal Lands, Protect Environment
House Committee on Homeland Security -- The Week Ahead
H.R. 1299, Secure Border Act of 2011
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
H.R. 915, Jaime Zapata Border Enforcement Security Task Force Act
Subcommittee Hearing: “Securing our Borders – Operational Control and the Path Forward.”
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
King Statement on DHS Decision to Cancel SBInet Program
Issues
- Domestic Radicalization / Radicalization Hearings
- 9/11 Trials/Guantanamo Detainees
- Border Security
- Chemical Facility Security
- Counterterrorism
- Cybersecurity
- First Responder Communications
- Information Sharing and State and Local Fusion Centers
- Killing of Osama bin Laden
- Maritime Security
- Oversight of DHS Management
- Passenger and Cargo Aviation Security
- Preparedness for and Response to Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters
- Risk-Based Grant Funding
- Surface Transportation Security
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Wikileaks