During a House Homeland Security Committee markup hearing prior to the congressional recess, Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) spoke in support of H.R.275, the Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2024, that requires the Department of Homeland Security to report every month on non-U.S. nationals.
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00:00Does anyone else want to say a word? Mr. Chairman. Mr. Higgins. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield my time to the chairman. Thank you. Again, I spent a lot of number of years in a tier one task force hunting terrorists. And I'll tell you, they don't like the bag count. They hate it. It's a disincentive. If you put the numbers up, the scoreboard up, it's a disincentive. It's not an incentive.
00:30It doesn't publish any kind of how we're catching them. To push back on this bill is really, I mean, I don't understand it at all. And I hunted terrorists as a part of a tier one task force for years. No, I didn't prosecute them. I hunted them to capture them. And in some cases, kill them.
00:51So from my experience, putting the number count up is going to be a disincentive. It's not giving them some ability to evade our detection in any way. And I appreciate the fact that Mr. Goldman recognized that they probably know it when we get them. Good. Let's remind them. Let's tell them every day, hey, we're catching more of you guys.
01:14And let's also let the American people know. And as I understand this bill, it would apply to Republican administrations and Democrat administrations. Because it's a law.
01:25So I don't get it. But that's me. And I think Mr. Jimenez, I'll yield to you, since I have a little bit of time. If Mr. Higgins.
01:34Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Reclaiming my time, I yield to Mr. Jimenez.
01:38Thank you. Thank you to the gentleman from Louisiana.
01:40I just want to clarify something. Actually, what I wanted in this bill is actually in the bill already. So in the amendment, the first report required under subsection shall also include matters described in the subsection for the period from January 20th, 2021 to January 19th, 2025.
01:57So what I really wanted was this comparison. It was already in the amendment. So I'm good. And I yield back.