We need to make sure we are protecting our borders. We included in our legislation many aspects of a crossborder security solution. They included 12.000 new Border Patrol agents which we would add to our Border Patrol effort to make sure we have the right manpower to address the border security issue. In that legislation through an amendment that was sponsored by our friend from Alabama. we created additional fences that would be established along the border. some 370 miles of fences that had been established and constructed in critical locations along the border. We provided new criminal penalties for construction of border tunnels to address what has happened in places where there are currently fences across borders. where people have created tunnels to dig under those fences to come to the United States.
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