CBP’s Vitiello: Having Agents, Technology and the Barrier Will Make the Border Safer

RUSH EXCERPT:

VITIELLO: "We have had a couple of discussions that have gone up to the hill several times and given them a sense of what the president has asked for in his budget for 2018, and we are confident that people will work hard to put an action plan together that needs to be funded. He is looking for 1.6 billion, and that is not just for the wall, it it’s not just concrete and steel, but it is hiring new agents, customs officers, air and marine officers, and the wall will have sensors and electronics attached to it so that it is more secure. Having agents and the technology and then having the barrier will make the border safer. It will allow our people to work more safely in the boarded environment."