Americas ports. our borders. our transit systems. It provides financial support for 100 new rail inspectors and canine teams. enhancing our Nations railway security and ensuring that bombings such as those that happened in Mumbai and London arent repeated here. It adds 1.000 more Border Patrol agents. investigators. and those detention officers whom we know are so important in carrying out those responsibilities of securing our borders. Coupled with the spring supplemental. we will have added over 2.000 new agents in 1 year. That brings the total to over 14.300 Border Patrol agents. The bill also expands much needed detention spaceplaces to put people who illegally cross the border while justice is being administeredwith 1.000 new beds so that we can be sure people caught entering this country illegally are not released before their cases are properly prosecuted. Taken with the spring supplemental. we will have added over 5.000 beds along the border in 1 year. bringing the total number to over 25.300 beds.
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