So you can see what is happening to our country and what not closing the border can do to the amount of illegal drugs that are coming into our country. As we work on this funding for fiscal year 1998. I will be asking many questions about deployment of resources from the DEA and from the Border Patrol because we must put the resources where the threat lies. Twothirds of the illegal immigration and the illegal drugs flowing through Mexico and into our country go through Texas. through McAllen. through Eagle Pass. and through the Del Rio Border Patrol sectors. Twothirds of the illegal immigration and the illegal drugs go through these corridors. Yet as we have said. there are only 1.7 agents per mile in Texas. and we must do something about that. and that is what this bill is going to address today. The bill that we pass will fully fund 1.000 new Border Patrol agents. We need this help. It is the highest priority I have.
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