We continue to be focused on Aviation Security the new phenomena but i worry about are the foreign fighters and the threat of violent extremism here at home. I am ted hissen, a report with fusion. My question is, is the president still committed to taking executive action on immigration, and what sort of action is he considering at this time . Yes. The president is very committed to taking executive action to fix our broken immigration system. In the absence of action by congress and so am i. And were developing a set of reforms that i would characterize as comprehensive in nature, but within our existing legal authorities. There are a number of things we can do, and we should do, to fix our immigration system, which i anticipate will be announced somewhere between the midterm elections and the end of the year. I think thats what the president said. Okay. Yes, sir, right here. Thank you, sir. I im matt, with abc news. Louder. Im matt lauer with abc news, question. On the question of fo
Welcome to all of you. For those who havent been here, hope you like and it feel welcome at this new venue. Today were privileged and honored to have the secretary of Homeland Security, jeh johnson, with us, to deliver remarks on Border Security in the 21st 21st century. Its an honor and privilege to not only have secretary johnson here but to have him speaking on such a critical issue at a critical time for the nations security as well as the department. Ive got ton know the secretary over the last year, and i will tell you, he is one of the most serious, sober, and substantive Public Servants ive met, and its really an honor and privilege to have him here at csis. You know the secretarys background so i wont recite this bio, but certainly you know he has a distinguished legal and public career. He has served in the Public Sector numerous times, before his stint as the fourth secretary of Homeland Security, served as the general counsel at the department of defense, he may have been r
Clancys the right person to get us there. Well he didnt know about this for five days. Thats true. It happened on wednesday which meant i didnt know about it for five days plus. And found out he said through an email. Instead of up the chain of command. That concerns me a lot that the agency needs discipline, and it needs an outsider in some position there to be sure that were not jeopardizing the president s life, by taking care of people who have been our friends for years within the service. And that smacks to me that that may have happened on the latest incident. So mr. Secretary were looking to you to bring that agency in to conformity with the high standards with which its been associated with all these years. We must discipline that agency and make it work like its supposed to. The importance of the job they have, to protect the life of the president of the United States among other things demands remedy. Thank you. I couldnt agree more, sir. Thank you, mr. Chairman. We have six
Is one that i have a lot of interest in. I want to make sure were getting it right. Because ive been out in major cities and ive seen the end use that is being made with regard to our grant money. For example, and in phoenix, the super bowl, three days before the super bowl i looked at our op center, the joint op center, state, federal, local, the fire chief was anxious to point out to me every single piece of communications equipment, every camera, every tv screen you see was funded by the department of Homeland Security. Through our grant making. A lot of the things that you see on scene at the Boston Marathon bombing, the first responders, a lot of the equipment they used the vehicles were funded by our department. So ive seen the end uses of uasi grant money, the state grant money. One of the reasons i know how valuable it is, because i hear from state and local officials about the importance of this to them. And so its something i know i want to be sure we get right. I think given
Request for i. C. E. Includes sufficient funds for the 34,040 detention beds required under law, and youve done away with many of the unauthorized fees the department previously proposed to offset critical security spending. While this budget submission is indeed a vast improvement over those weve seen in the past, it does not mean that i am left without concerns. First, and probably most important, i question whether this request constitutes a realistic funding level. Unfortunately, the president s budget request governmentwide is billions of dollars above the level of our committee that we will ultimately be allocated to support spending. The president knows our doa here in congress. Thats not responsible budgeting. And i question whether your recommended level is possible given all of the domestic priorities at stake. Second, the president s executive order on immigration remains, as the chairman has said, the elephant in the room. The president s unilateral action demonstrates inte