Maybe that job belongs to the DHS CBP, NOT DoS!
Excuses excuses. Pompeo focuses on borders in the Middle East and Venezuela, not Americas borders. The old Bush-Cheney-McCain mentality
And it took Navarro to advocate for closing flights from China. Pompeo was focused on Syria at the time. Again, like a typical Cheneyesque neocon - ignore the real threats and obsess about MidEast regime change