I have got the gentleman from California . my friend. a fellow San Diegan. with me today. I am reminded that Mr. BILBRAY lives just a mile or two from the border. and I am going to talk about border control because that dimension of handling the illegal immigration problem is a very important dimension. This bill doubles the number of Border Patrol. To gain control of a border. we need a couple of things. We need an impediment which in this case is going to be a triple fence that the committee is building. It is a fence that was designed by Sandia Laboratories and a $600.000 study that was done for the INS by the department of drug policy. It has been endorsed by Sylvester Reyes. the most successful Border Patrol Chief in the United States who successfully held the line in El Paso. This triple fence. along with forward deployed 10.000 Border Patrolmen. will help to cut off those 12 smugglers corridors across the Southwest. Each place where we have an urban population on each side of the border. whether it is San Diego. Tijuana or El Paso or Brownsville. TX. in Juarez or Matamoros. Mexico. we have hotbeds of smuggling that is taking place right now. This bill addresses border control and does it in a very. very effective manner.
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