There is no issue about this. We intend to do this. However. we have found in ramping up the number of Border Patrol agents they have run into a fairly significant problem. As an aside. I note that the only reason we have been able to increase these Border Patrol agents so dramatically is because Senator COCHRAN. as chairman of the full Appropriations Committee. has allowed the subcommittee. which I chairthe Homeland Security Subcommitteeto get special allocations in order to fund those. It has really been out of his courtesy. his energy. and the support of Senator FRIST in this effort that we have been successful in basically increasing these numbers. We are on this path of basically being able to have enough boots on the ground in the Border Patrol area and Customs area and ICE area in order to adequately control the border. What we found going through this process of expanding dramatically Border Patrol agents and Customs and ICE agents is that the infrastructure to support these people isnt there. They are driving old cars. For the most part they are flying helicopters which are 20 years over their useful life.
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