This bill we are about to pass has a 6year plan to dramatically increase the number of agents along that southern border. agents who are hired. who are trained. and who are deployed along that border to stop that hemorrhaging. With the amendment by Senator SESSIONS. we have agreed to build at least 370 miles of triplelayered fence. with another 500 miles of vehicle barriers at strategic locations. This adds to provisions in the underlying bill which give the Border Patrol the technology and tools. the sophistication of technology we know they need to make that border less porous. At last. we will have a longterm border control strategy that will work and give us results to make America safer. to make America more secure. To further bolster border security. we approved an amendment to authorize the National Guard to temporarily support border patrol operations. Coupled with the almost $2 billion in funds we approved in the Senate last month to beef up that border patrol and building on the money we appropriated last yearalmost $10 billionto begin hiring new agents. Americans should know the Senate is serious about stopping that hemorrhaging coming across our borders. We also moved to tackle another commonsense issue of national cohesion.
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