Mr. President. I rise today to introduce a critically important bill for our national security and our immigration system. My bill is called the Border Operations Reform and Development of Electronic Remote Surveillance Act of 2006otherwise known as the BORDERS Act. Getting control over our Nations borders is an indispensable part of comprehensive immigration reform. The Government of the United States has the obligation to protect its citizens and to provide for homeland security by having control of its international borders. Yet. as we all know. our borders with Mexico and Canada are broken. Recognizing the dangerous situation that this presents. the bipartisan 9/11 Commission strongly recommended that the United States get operational control of its borders. Because our Government has not succeeded in adequately securing our borders. millions of undocumented aliens have crossed into our country without our Governments permission. Despite our best efforts to have an orderly system of immigration and to control who enters the United States. its simply not working. Comprehensive immigration reform demands that we find aggressive. practical. and costeffective methods to quickly secure our borders. The BORDERS Act of 2006 does exactly that. building on recent reports by the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security. as well as the Government Accountability Office. Let me briefly summarize the BORDERS Act of 2006 and explain why this bill is so important to our national security.
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