This means that we have to find the money for ICE to hire 659 more agents than the bill currently funds. That is 800. minus 141. The Department of Homeland Security tells me that it costs as much as $130.000 to fund a fully wrapped new ICE agent for the first year. with training and equipment and all those things. Therefore. the cost for these additional 659 new agents will be $85 million. To pay for these agents. the amendment contains an acrosstheboard reduction. This is about making some decisions about what we intend to do with regard to enforcement of immigration laws. It sets some priorities. So that will help us focus on what we need to do. To me. based on my experience. having worked with Customs agents. having worked with Border Patrol agents. having worked with INS agents back when I was a Federal prosecutor. interior enforcement agents. who are responsible for enforcing immigration laws in the workplace and inside our borders. are a top priority. Let me tell you. it is not going to be that difficult. We are not going to need tens of thousands of Federal agents to change the workplace illegality that is going on.
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