It simply cannot be done. That is why you have to try to prevent the problem from arising in the first place. I will close by noting that part of our effort. in this appropriation bill. in order to control the border itself. is to provide a thousand new Border Patrol agents at the border. also 300 new Immigration and Customs investigators. the new enforcement agents. This bill provides 460 of those. Incidentally. all of these are in addition to numbers provided in the supplemental appropriations bill. So we have added to the number that we already acted on at the end of last year. We fund over 40.000 positions dedicated to protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws. To break it down. over 12.000 Border Patrol agents. 18.000 Customs and border protection officers. nearly 6.000 criminal investigators. nearly 1.300 deportation officers. 2.700 immigration enforcement agents and detention officers. We also have money for more training of Border Patrol and immigration enforcement personnel. We have money to support the deployment of the US VISIT Program. which will help us better track the people who both come into our country and leave the country. We have over a half billion dollars for air and marine operations. as I mentioned before. money for over 2.000 new detention beds for these apprehended illegal aliens. and with the supplemental. that adds about 4.000 new detention spaces for this purpose. We more than double the number of ports that have our container security initiative. 41 that take part in that. and nearly $1 billion for biological countermeasures. These things. by and large. are in place to try to prevent the capability of the terrorists from pulling off an attack in the first place.
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