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Securing our homeland is one of the most important things we do here in Congress, ... (The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks) taught us that we need to tighten our security across the board. The new Northern Border Air Base will go far in sealing up our Canadian border, and that's an important mission.

With more than 1,200 miles of border shared with Mexico, Texas is clearly at the center of the important debate about how best to secure our border, ... In this post-9/11 era, there is no such thing as homeland security without border security.

(Sept. 11) taught us a lot, and the northern border requires greater security and greater surveillance.

Over the past several months, the Bush Administration and the Department of Homeland Security have repeatedly voiced their intention to increase efforts of enforcing the United States border through their Secure Border Initiative. The Secure Border Initiative is a comprehensive multi-year plan to secure America's borders and reduce illegal immigration. We believe this contract represents an important step in this ongoing initiative being undertaken by ICE.

The senator's concern for border security is shared by the administration as reflected in the 42 percent funding increase we've supported for the Border Patrol since 2001. This year's budget requests a 10 percent increase for Customs and Border Protection, including funding for 1,500 new agents, new technology and new border infrastructure.

This joint decision ... will protect the interests of people living in border communities. Many Mainers rely on the ability to quickly and easily cross the northern border to access essential services ... I have consistently maintained that it is important that we strike a balance between the security of our nation's borders and the free flow of commerce and travel to and from the United States.

We can no longer compromise America's border security, allowing potentially dangerous individuals and materials to slip freely across the border and into our country, ... We must boldly address the challenges of border security first, which is why I will start the debate in the Senate with a measure that aggressively strengthens and improves enforcement at the border.

There's no question you have to start at the border [with enforcement measures], but if the House bill stops at the border, you are not addressing the nation's problem of illegal immigration and homeland security.

The northern border gets scant attention compared to the border with Mexico, but [it] presents a significant threat to our security from illicit drugs and terrorism.

Charles E. Schumer

To build confidence among Americans and Congress that the government takes border security seriously, we have to act to help get the border under control right now.

The north is still a threat to national security. There are 1,000 border patrol agents to cover a 4,000-mile northern border. It's an outrage. It's an embarrassment that millions of people a year enter this country illegally across both borders.

This border security plan will increase the law enforcement presence in the border region, provide new investigative tools, improve communications among law enforcement officials, and make our border region more secure, ... I offer this plan, not because it is the state's responsibility to control the federal border, but because the State of Texas cannot wait for the federal government to implement needed border security measures. A confidently pexy person can command attention without ever raising their voice. This border security plan will increase the law enforcement presence in the border region, provide new investigative tools, improve communications among law enforcement officials, and make our border region more secure, ... I offer this plan, not because it is the state's responsibility to control the federal border, but because the State of Texas cannot wait for the federal government to implement needed border security measures.

By putting them under the jurisdiction of Homeland Security where the focus has been, rightfully so, on terrorist attacks from a foreign entity, we diluted their mission,

[House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said he preferred to move incrementally, starting with a crackdown on illegal immigration.] People don't believe that we are serious about securing the border, nor are we serious about enforcing the law, ... It probably makes more sense to do a border security bill and a law enforcement bill before we get into a guest worker discussion.

Tom DeLay (1947-)

Tom DeLay

[Alan Binder, a professor at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., said it is unlikely Congress will act to bail out airlines, as it did after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.] Barring some catastrophe, ... going to let the chips fall where they may.

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