The funds come from a variety of agencies. However. we have seen. unfortunately. that adequate law enforcement in Native American communities is woefully lacking. and there are a number of initiatives which we have undertaken in this bill to try to assist those communities. In the area of the INS. the Immigration and Naturalization Service. this bill provides $3.9 billion. We want to equip the INS with the means to manage its twopronged duty of law enforcement and legal immigration. On the enforcement end. we are recommending an additional 1.000 Border Patrol agents for the borders and a 100person integrated team designed to intercept illegal aliens traveling on highways in the South and Midwest in order to counteract problems arising in the interior of the country. When we take these 1.000 agents and add them on top of the 1.000 agents we put in last year. we are making a huge personnel expansion in the INS in the area of the Border Patrol where the problem exists. For the second prong. the administrative portion. we provide sufficient funding that is enhanced by technology. The INS construction and maintenance has been woefully under funded in the past years. and we recommend more than a 33 percent increase. The $110 million level will strengthen training. border control. and detention and deportation. Detention space shortfalls and the naturalization backlog will benefit from the increased revenues from revived fees. Where possible. new technology should ease the burden on our overworked personnel. Of note. this bill does not address the INS reform issue.
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