What did we do? We applied triggers. We said that until the following things are done. no temporary visa will be issued to an illegal immigrant in the United States. What are those things? No. 1. we are going to increase the numbers of the Border Patrol. By the way. this isnt the end of it. We said 18.000. and an amendment has been adopted that says take it to 20.000. and that is great. and we will need more than that. Do you know what 20.000 Border Patrol agents represents. Mr. President? It is half the New York City Police Department. So if they have about 39.000 people on the New York City Police Departmentand I dont know how many square miles that is. but we have 2.000 miles of border to Mexico. not to mention our northern borderI think one can appreciate probably 20.000 Border Patrol agents is not enough. but we at least get to that mark before any of those triggers are pulled. We do the same thing with fencing. We have authorized 700 miles of fencing.
Keywords matched
Border Patrol visa illegal immigrant