That bill passed out of the House and continues to sit on the desk of the Democrat Senate and has not been taken up. So we took pieces of HR2 and we interjected it into this Homeland Security Appropriations bill, Including 22,000 more Border Patrol agents. We also included funding for overtime payment for them for better technology. Now, there was a little bit of a piece in there for more detention Beds. (02:20–02:24)
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