It would have provided $20 billion in extra emergency funding to buy 50,000 detention beds, to hire 4,300 new asylum officers, 100 new immigration judges, 1,500 border patrol agents, 1,000 new deportation officers.
Murphy outlines the funding and resources proposed in the Bipartisan Border Bill.
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