Current law requires that by April 26. 2008. 18 months after the Secure Fence Act was passed and was signed into law. that: The Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all actions the Secretary determines necessary and appropriate to achieve and maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States. Eighty Senators voted on that last year right before the elections. that this should be the standard that we would have. operational control over the border. Only 18.000 Border Patrol agents have to be deployed by the Department of Homeland Security under this deal. This is 300 agents less than the PowerPoint listed. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires 2.000 new Border Patrol agents to be hired each year through 2010. so we are already on track now to have that many people in the next 2 or 3 years. We have already funded the hiring of over 14.000 Border Patrol agents. and DHS is already planning on hiring the 18.000 with upcoming appropriations. This trigger didnt require anything new. nothing other than what we had done. The 370 miles of fencing. which was part of the bill offered last year. and 200 miles of vehicle barriers. are yet to be built.
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