Mr. Chairman. this amendment. technical in nature. would authorize the purchase of 156 additional passenger vehicles for use by the border patrol. These vehicles are necessary since the committee. by passage of my amendment. approved funds for an additional 311 border patrol positions. The Immigration Service purchases one passenger vehicle for each two border patrol officers it has on duty. Therefore. the appropriations bill must be amended to include the authority to purchase these vehicles. This amendment will in no way cost any additional funds. it merely authorizes the purchase of vehicles for the border patrol positions which we just funded. A similar increase was inadvertently omitted from the 1980 appropriations bill and had to be corrected in the supplemental appropriations legislation. This amendment will avoid similar problems during fiscal year 1981.
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