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U.S. Homeland Security Subcommittee conducts hearing seeks solutions to crisis at U.S.-Mexico Border

U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer portrait
U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimates that it will encounter more than two million migrants crossing the southern boarder by the end of the year.

“More than four times the number from fiscal year 2020.”

U.S. Representative Peter Meijer is ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee. He says the current crisis has been accelerated by the Biden administration’s misguided policies.

The solution is addressing a complex set of circumstances within the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras where most migrants originate their journey.

“These factors include systemic and entrenched corruption. Poverty and food insecurity. Violence and a lack of economic opportunity that often precludes them from making a better life for themselves and their families in their home countries.”

Meijer and the subcommittee seek long-term solutions and comprehensive immigration reform. While the Biden Administration is committing $300 million to Northern Triangle countries and is proposing a $400 billion aid package addressing regional instability, the Grand Rapids Republican says any assistance must be “targeted, monitored and transparent” ensuring “maximum impact.”

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.