John Ensign: “to address that question, we actually talked about that in yesterday's hearing. It was one of the questions that was…”

“to address that question, we actually talked about that in yesterday's hearing. It was one of the questions that was asked. What the National Guard is going to do, with the Department of Defense, is take the equipment down there, and it will stay down there. If the Illinois National Guard comes down, they won't come down with their own equipment; they will use the equipment that is there. So it will stay there for the 2 years, for the duration, what they need. So that is going to be paid for separately. It is part of the $1.9 billion the administration had requested, so it does not come out of the normal National Guard budget, it doesn't come out of what we are trying to replenish of the National Guard's that are coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan. Those are excellent questions. We have addressed those. We have addressed those as to how the administration policy is going to happen. This is the last point I will make. This is a critical stopgap, but it is only a stopgap because we can only train about 1,000 Border Patrol agents a year. It was my amendment actually to ramp us up to 10,000 more Border Patrol agents in the intelligence bill last year. We can't do even the 2,000 that bill envisioned, and we certainly can't get to the 10,000 right way. This bill before us needs this if you are going to have the temporary guest worker program. This National Guard is the temporary measure that we need to fill in so we actually secure the borders.…”