In other words. it answers the question that many people ask: If you grant people a right to come to the United States and work here. how can we be sure that you have done all of the other things you have said you would do? In effect. this answers it by saying the temporary worker program doesnt start until we can certify that those other things were done. All of us have talked about the need to ensure that we have enough detention spaces for people who came here illegally and need to be detained. that we have enough Border Patrol agents. that we have enough appropriation for some of the other things the bill calls forand we are talking about the underlying bill. Given the fact that we all seem to agree that those things need to be done. what this amendment does is answer the question. How do we know they will be done? One way we know they will be done is the temporary worker program doesnt kick in until they are done. We are not talking about in toto. we are only talking about 18 months worth of the program. For example. we know that the number of people within the Department of Homeland Security who will be required to investigate compliance with immigration laws related to the hiring of aliens needs to be increased by 2.000. and those people would need to have been employed. We know the number of Border Patrol agents within the Department would be increased by not less than 2.500 more than on the date of enactment. That is approximately 1 years worth of increase in Border Patrol agents. In addition. detention spaces I mentioned would have to be increased to a level of not less than 2.000 more than the number of beds available on the date of enactment. That is about the number that would be created in 1 years worth of activity under the bill.
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