I have asked for that to be done. Unfortunately. that has not been donewell. that is incorrect. It was proposed by the administration to increase the commitment of the number of Border Patrol agents. They gave that commitment in their budget submission. but they took it away because they tied it to creating a fee. which would increase the airline user fee. and the practical result of that would be the money which was supposed to be used to add these additional agents would never be realized. But it should be done. it can be done. and if a fee is necessary to do it. it should be done on a fee basis. but a fee that has no relationship to the actual usage. An airline fee does not impact southern border protection. The airline fee impacts the TSA. and it needs support. It has gone through 2 years of freeze and should be increased in our commitment there. and this fee maybe should be used to do that.
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