And it is a stretch of land about 15 miles wide. It goes from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the California coastal hills to the east. And across that smugglers corridor comes about half of the illegal aliens and illegal narcotics smuggled into this country. We have learned a lot of things. One of the things we have learned as a result of this experience in building a fence across the smugglers corridor. putting up lights. putting up a road and starting to get the number of border patrolmen we need to the border. one thing we have learned is we are going to need about 10.000 border patrolmen to control the border. There is no substitute for people. Now I want to put this in context. The Clinton administration has funded about 4.500 border patrolmen for next year. They increased the contingent by 600 border patrolmen last year after an amendment was forced on them by the House of Representatives.
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