with efficiency, these groups saw that the ability to remove those to come here illegally did not keep pace. they saw that there were loopholes to exploit detention and removal and how that has changed the context of our immigration and border security system. before 2013, approximately one out of every 100 arriving aliens claimed credible fear, the first step in the united states process. today more than one out of ten do so. why this matters is that this number unfortunately demonstrates and is indicative of the rising level of fraud that plagues our system. it prevents us, when we have to deal with the fraud and backlogs, we are unable to help those truly in need. today 40% are families and