KEYS CONGRESSMAN HEADS TO SOUTHERN BORDER

Carlos Gimenez takes part in a Homeland Security hearing

U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, whose district includes the Florida Keys, visits the United States’ southern border March 14 and 15, in McAllen, Texas, for the first Homeland Security Committee Field Hearing to examine policies at the Southwest border.

Gimenez chairs the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Maritime and Transportation Security. For the first time, many of the Homeland Security officials who were previously barred from testifying will be testifying on the southern border situation.

The hearing will be open to the public and press and will be live streamed online at youtube.com/HomelandSecurity.

Gimenez is on the House Armed Services Committee, Select Committee on China, and the Homeland Security Committee. He is the only Cuban-born member of the 118th Congress and is the former mayor of Miami-Dade County.

— Contributed