The Border: Are Environmental Laws and Regulations Impeding Security and Harming the Environment?

April 15, 2011

Panel 1

Hon. Silvestre Reyes

Member of Congress

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Panel 2

Ronald Vitiello (testimony)

Deputy Chief

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

Kim Thorsen (testimony)

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law Enforcement, Security, and Emergency Management

U.S. Department of the Interior

Jay Jensen (testimony)

Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Panel 3

George Zachary Taylor (testimony)

Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent

Gene Wood (testimony)

Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent

Jim Chilton (testimony)

Citizen of the State of Arizona

Anu Mittal (testimony)

Director of Natural Resources and Environment

Government Accountability Office

Oversight & Government Reform