By Mark Tarallo
The heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency are scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing on border security on July 9. FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate and CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske will appear at the hearing, “Challenges at the Border: Examining the Causes, Consequences, and Responses to the Rise in Apprehensions at the Southern Border,” to be held by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs. On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in an interview that he thinks the U.S. can turn back the recent influx of illegal immigrants, particularly unaccompanied children, crossing the southern border. “I believe we will stem this tide,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” But he also acknowledged the number of illegal immigrants is rising and it will be difficult to turn the situation around, particularly as violence and poverty roils central America. “Honduras is in a really bad place right now,” Johnson said.
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