It is stronger than the bill introduced by the senior Senator from Tennessee. who started from the same place as the committee bill but did not include some of the enforcement measures added by amendment during committee consideration nor any of the other improvements we made. For example. neither of those other bills included a provision. added by the committee at the urging of Senator FEINSTEIN. to make tunneling under our borders a Federal crime. The committee bill adds new criminal penalties for evading immigration officers. and it added manslaughter to the definition of aggravated felony. Finally. on Monday morning of this week. the committee adopted a Feinstein amendment to add 12.000 new Border Patrol agents2.400 each year for the next 5 years. Our committee bill is enforcementplus. It starts with strong enforcement provisions and border security. but it is also comprehensive in Its balance. It confronts the problem of 12 million undocumented immigrants who live in the shadows. It values work. It respects human dignity and includes guest worker provisions supported by both business and labor.
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