No, no, no. Under the supplemental bill that we passed last August in 2010, you were supposed to hire 1,000, because there was an emergency.
Henry Cuellar: “No, no, no. Under the supplemental bill that we passed last August in 2010, you were supposed to hire 1,000, because…”
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Cuellar questions the hiring of Border Patrol agents under an emergency bill.
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