CHAIRMAN MAST DELIVERS OPENING REMARKS AT HEARING ON CONFRONTING HAITI'S TERRORIST GANGS

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman issued the following statement:

Watch Here WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing titled "Confronting Haiti's Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and the Path Ahead." -Remarks-Seven hundred miles from my home state of Florida, terrorist organizations control the Haiti national capital. They don't influence it, they control it. They hold an estimated 90% of Port-au-Prince. They have displaced more than 1.4 million. They murder, they kidnap, they rape, they castrate, they feed people what they castrate, they extort the Haitian people on a massive scale, they seek to replace t...