02/10/2026 at 02:00PM
Subcommittee hearing entitled ‘Weaponized Mass Migration: A Security Risk to Europe and the United States.’
Witnesses:
- RADM (ret.) Mark Montgomery, CCTI Senior Director and Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
- Matthew Boyse, Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia, Hudson Institute
- Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, Deputy Director, International Program, Migration Policy Institute
The hearing is publicized with an image of migrants attempting to cross the English Channel from Gravelines, France, in April 2024, confronted by French police who punctured their dinghy. The photo was taken by AFP’s Sameer Al-Doumy. “Migrants react as a French police officer stands by ready to puncture the smuggler’s boat with a knife to prevent migrants from embarking in an attempt to cross the English Channel on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France on April 26, 2024. Five migrants, including a seven-year-old girl, died on April 23, 2024, trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain, local authorities said, just hours after Britain passed a controversial bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.”