You are the advocate of AgJOBS. Senator CRAIG. You are the guy out there promoting reform in immigration right now. I said very simply and very clearly: Mr. President. we have to build credibility with the American people that we have lost because our borders are not secure and we have not controlled them. Now. all of us and all who may be listening know the rest of that story. There are now 6.000 Guard men and women deployed to our southwest border. and that allows us to more effectively utilize the Border Patrol along our border and to spread our Guard out into the broad expanses of a 2.000mile border which are maybe less dangerous than the congested areas where the greatest numbers come across. Our Guard men and women are not policemen. Our border patrolmen are. They are trained. They are officers of the law so they can detain and arrest. But at the same time. the combination of using our border patrolmen. our National Guard men and women. and our Border Patrol is the right combination. The reason I talk about this and set this idea in front of my colleagues is to express what is really going on out there. that is. this country is investing heavily on the southwestern border as we speak. We are spending billions of dollars.
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