The 5year budget projections for the Federal Prison System call for the agencys operating budget to rise from its current level of $2.3 billion to over $3.5 billion. Please note. this increased requirement will occur during the same period that the balanced budget amendment calls for the budget to be balanced. For the Immigration and Naturalization Service. the Presidents budget request proposes an increase of $442 million or 21 percent. It would provide for 700 new Border Patrol agents. 680 new inspectors for border crossings. and 165 support staff so agents can patrol the border and not spend their time performing paperwork. And the budget proposes to increase by $170 million payments to States for the cost of housing incarcerated illegal aliens in State prisons. With respect to total law enforcement assistance to State and local governments. this is again the area of the largest increases in the Presidents fiscal year 1996 budget. For the Justice Department. the budget would increase such assistance by almost $1.6 billion or 66 percent.
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