We provide more than $8.4 billion for the war on drugs. including a $95 million increase for the Drug Enforcement Administration. $31 million more than they requested. We put $10 million more into the drug courts in localities which are doing wonderful work throughout the country. and $10 million for a new program to help small businesses create drugfree workplaces. We provide a thousand new Border Patrol agents to guard the border. $216 million more than they have now for controlling illegal immigration. The bill provides a $47 million Interior enforcement initiative to force the INS to respond to State and local police in every State when they find suspected illegal aliens. Now. the INS simply does not answer the phone when the State police calls and says they have a vanload of illegals. and they are turned loose. We put money in here to respond to that. to give State and local police a way to have the INS assist in the removal of the illegal aliens they watch. This rule will allow us to move forward. I am very appreciative of the Committee on Rules.
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