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On the recordMarch 14, 2011
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.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Cuellar questions the hiring of Border Patrol agents under an emergency bill.

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