.USBPChief Raul Ortiz, will testify before HomelandGOP in a hearing scheduled to take place Wednesday of next week during the lawmakers visit to the Rio Grande Valley.
Chief Raul Ortiz will appear before the House Homeland Security Committee during its visit to the Rio Grande Valley on March 15, a senior House GOP aide confirmed Thursday morning.Ortiz has rarely made public appearances as the nonpolitical official at the helm of the 20,000-agent organization, making this on-the-record testimony significant.Ortiz will have to walk a line between appeasing his superiors and his subordinates.
He will also have to be mindful of the White House and Department of Homeland Security, who have declined over the past two years to call the record number of people apprehended at the southern border a"crisis."
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