President. Senator CORNYN and I have introduced legislation that is comprehensive in nature. and I wish to briefly describe some of the key provisions of that legislation because I believe we will have an opportunity to vote on it as an amendment to the pending bill at some point during our procedure. In significant part. the bill before us embodies many of the provisions of our legislation that deal with border security. I want to emphasize at the beginning that almost all of us agree the first step we have to take in dealing with comprehensive immigration reform is securing the border. It is going to take time to get that done. It is going to take money and it is going to take. will. The provisions of our bill provide a significant sum of money for more Border Patrol agents. more fencingit is not a wall. but it does provide some additional fencingand it provides for high technology to help with the border security. including unmanned aerial vehicles. sensors. cameras. and things of that sort. It also requires that the Department of Homeland Security acquire more detention spaces so that people who come here from countries other than Mexico and. therefore. cant just be returned to the border. will actually be detained pending their removal to their own country. Today. if you are an illegal immigrant from China. for example. we cant take you down to the border with Mexico and drop you off there: we have to send you back to China. This costs a lot of money. It takes a long time.
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