This is why we have included money of over $112 million to the Department of Homeland Security for enforcementno. not National Guard at our border. but really moving assets to Central America to deal with law enforcement. to strengthen the courts. and to be able to deal with the issues of narco trafficking and organized crime in their own country. We also know that while we are doing this type of intervention down there to go after the smugglers. coyotes. and human traffickers. we also need to deal with the fact that when these children are here. they have the right to seek legal asylum. Now. as Senator FEINSTEIN pointed out. there are only 240 immigration judges in the country. The fact is there is a backlog of over 100.000 cases. These kids move to the front of the line. but even if they move to the front of the line. it could be as much as 2 or 3 years before their cases are heard. This is not right. It is not right for them and it is not right for our country. So I have more money in this bill for more immigration judges to resolve the asylum cases. additional legal representation for the children. including bilingual representation. and the kind of backup and support where pro bono lawyers are coming to the aid to be able to do this. I hope we pass this supplemental so we can do this. Second.
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