Senators Reach Border Security Deal in Immigration Bill
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A bipartisan group of senators agreed on a strengthened border-security plan in an effort to draw Republican support for the most significant revision of U.S. immigration law in a generation.
The plan, described on the Senate floor today by Republican Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota, would double the U.S. Border Patrol’s size by adding 20,000 agents and would require 700 miles of fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border. It would provide additional unmanned aerial drones to help police the border.