Included in this is funding to continue the innovative TriState Methamphetamine Training Center in Sioux City. Iowa. which provides police officers in rural areas with training in comprehensive counterdrug operations that their communities would normally not be able to afford or have access to. Continuing our efforts to stem the flow of illegal aliens. this years bill again provides funding for 1.000 new Border Patrol agents. However. there are also a number of important INSrelated provisions in our bill. The INS has been slow to implement a provision I included in the immigration reform legislation enacted in 1996 that charged INS to establish a program to deputize State and local law enforcement agents. thus enabling them to assist with identifying criminal aliens. However. our bill provides $21.8 million to set up 50 innovative INS Quick Response Teams to aid local law enforcement with identifying and removing illegal aliens. This is critical to areas throughout rural America where the INS has simply failed to respond to calls from local authorities to identify criminal aliens and take them into custody. Also included in the bill is language under the COPS Technology Program permitting technology such as video teleconferencing equipment to be purchased under this grant program.
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