From Congress. the peoples branch. In December of 2004. Congress authorized the hiring of 2.000 new Border Patrol agents per year for 5 years. the hiring of an additional 800 Immigration investigators per year for 5 years to enforce our immigration laws. and the funding of 8.000 new detention beds for the holding of illegal aliens. But despite statements by Secretary of State Rice and statements by former Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Loy that alQaida is a threat on our porous borders. there was virtually nothing in the Presidents budget to provide these additional resources for border securityvirtually nothing. The bill that is before the Senate today commits real resources to securing our border with regard to transit and rail security. When terrorists blew up trains last year in Madrid.
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