Madam President. let me say. on behalf of myself and Senator KYL. we are working on two amendments that deal with the issue of border security. The first I am offering is an amendment to add 500 additional border guards to the underlying bill. The President. in his budget request. suggested we increase the number of border guards to be trained this year to 2.500. One thousand of those were provided in the bill. but this would add an additional 500. The other 1.000 was provided in the emergency supplemental. which was passed earlier this year. which would bring us a total of 1.000. plus 1.000 in this bill. plus 500. to 2.500.
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