Speaker, I want to thank Representative Vela for
yielding time to me and also Chairman McCaul and the folks who have
been working on this particular bill. CBP currently has a staffing deficit of 3,000 individuals for the
uniform components, that is the U.S. Border Patrol, Office of Field
Operations, Air and Marine Operations, which jeopardizes our national
and our economic security. This legislation does not cover ICE. CBP, Border Patrol, and Air and
Marine. Nobody else. This has nothing to do with deportation. Long before President Trump became a candidate for the office,
Congress authorized CBP to hire an additional 2,000 officers. That was
about 4 years ago.
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