We couldnt handle that. Now we are increasing the number of ports of entry and provide for improvement of existing ports. There is much more to improve border security in this legislation. I thought I would refer to a few of the other areas of enforcement policy. The bill authorizes 250 new Customs and border protection officers. 200 new positions for investigative personnel to investigate alien smuggling. and 250 additional port of entry inspectors annually from fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2011. It also increases the number of Customs enforcement Inspectors by 200 in section 5203 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. It authorizes 2.400 additional Border Patrol agents annually for 6 years. adding an additional 4.400 agents to the border over 6 years to the 10.000 already added by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. for a total of 14.400 new Border Patrol agents by 2011. If America says nothing is being done. then America. listen up: This Congress is as committed as you are concerned about border control and building that fence. But it will not be a steel and concrete fence stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of California and the west coast. It will be a virtual fence of electronics. of surveillance flights. of the recognition of new ports and people. personnel. because the other is. at best. impractical and. at worst. once done. unworkable.
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