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Schiff said the country needs to “get control of the border” with more personnel and technology to interdict people and drugs.

He later explained that he was using a definition employed by the Border Patrol that defines “operational control” as “the ability to detect, respond and interdict border penetrations in areas deemed as high priority.”

That helps its efforts to interdict suspected drug and weapons shipments.

A Border Patrol boat sat in the river observing the people but never attempting to interdict, question them or try to block them from coming.

Meanwhile, a Border Patrol boat sat in the river “passively observing” the stream of people but never attempting to deter or interdict them before they reached the riverbank.