Mr. ORTIZ. was one of the first Members. I think. to raise the question of OTMs. which your amendment in part would give us some answers to by providing information for those undocumented aliens who would be coming through the southern border who were not from contiguous countries. One of the issues that all of us are concerned about is the route of terrorism that might occur and might be utilized by individuals coming from places other than Mexico. As you well know. over the years. unfortunately. we have had a gap in our enforcement. and those individuals have been released on their own recognizance. My concern is as you have this thoughtful amendment. and I ask you to consider this. we. frankly. do not have the detainee space. detention beds. and the enforcement. internal enforcement officers. and also Border Patrol officers. even though this is a report. to deal with the large numbers of those who are coming in that we have been able to ascertain. In fact. 110.000 OTMs have been released last year due to lack of detention facilities. Legislation that I offered asked for 100.000 detention beds. So I just raise that with the gentleman. I think the amendment is thoughtful. but we still are without the resources to do what we need to do on these particular detainees or undocumented aliens.
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