House Speaker John Boehner Ohio leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 20, 2013, where he responded to reporters' questions on immigration reform legislation, jobs, and President Barack Obama's plan to put limits on the carbon emissions of existing power plants. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
House Speaker John Boehner Ohio leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 20, 2013, where he responded to reporters' questions on immigration reform legislation, jobs, and President Barack Obama's plan to put limits on the carbon emissions of existing power plants. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican senators searching for compromise on an immigration bill have announced an amendment to dramatically increase agents, technology and fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The deal was announced on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon by GOP Sens. John Hoeven of North Dakota and Bob Corker of Tennessee. It would double border patrol agents on the border, build 700 new miles of fencing and spend billions to deploy additional high-tech tools including drones, radar and seisimic monitoring.
Corker says it amounts to "investing resources to secure our border that have never been invested before."
Even before being formally introduced the amendment was adding powerful momentum to the White House-backed legislation, which looked likely to pass the Senate with a bipartisan majority in coming days.
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