Although Operation Jump Start has been effective. it is currently scheduled to end. Guardsmen currently stationed on the border number around 3.000. By this summer. the number will be zerozero. The Senate has already voted twice that the Guard should stay on the border through the end of this calendar year at a minimum. The Ensign amendment offered during comprehensive reform authorized Governors to deploy Guard troops through 2008 to engage in border control activities to meet training requirements. That was agreed to 83 to 10. My amendment. offered to the DOD appropriations bill. funded Operation Jump Start through the end of fiscal year 2008.
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