Mr. Chairman. there is probably no agency in the U.S. Government that I would rather find money for right now than the Immigration and Naturalization Service. especially the Border Patrol. In fact. when the administration request came to us. their request proposed cutting out 92 of the agents we already have in the border patrol. By scrounging here and there. our subcommittee has been able to hold the Border Patrol harmless from that proposed cut by the administration. We are not going to let that happen in this bill as it is right now. In fact. we also increased the INS inspectors by the use of a new land border fee system. And. by the way. while we were protecting the Border Patrol from cuts proposed by the administration. we were unable to protect the FBI and DEA from cuts. So. consequently. there is going to be. if this bill passes. over 200 FBI agents will be cut. there is going to be at least 143 DEA agents cut because we did not have the money. But we did protect the Border Patrol. We are increasing INS inspectors. I would love to give them $60 million.
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