Harrison Township, MI – U.S. Congresswoman Candice Miller (MI-10) today made the following comments regarding the new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report outlining the security challenges faced on the northern border:

“The findings of this report further prove that we must remain committed to addressing the significant challenges faced on the northern border. It is unacceptable to have such vulnerabilities along our northern border where we have only a handful of miles that are under operational control. To date, we are still waiting for the Administration to put forth a detailed program to secure the border. We need to gain operational control of the entire border, both north and south, and I intend on holding a hearing which examines how the Border Patrol measures operational control of the border and how to improve our coordination of those efforts.”

Note: The GAO report outlines that the Border Patrol was aware of all illegal border crossings on only 25 percent of the northern border (1,007 out of 4,000 miles.) In addition, the Border Patrol has reached an acceptable level of security on 32 of the nearly 4,000 northern border miles in fiscal year 2010.

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