a record number of migrants have been apprehended in the tucson sector. an unrelenting pace that has made tucson the busiest sector in the country over the last five months. agents in southern arizona apprehended more than 15,000 people last week alone i earlier today with cbp agents in the tucson sector. their message to me, the message to congress is additional resources cannot come quickly enough. there triaging, leaving interior checkpoints unmanned and surging staff to deal with the influx of migrants, officers who normally work at the ports of entry were most illicit fentanyl is smuggled through are being reassigned to help with migrant apprehensions , without adequate staff, vehicle processing's have been reduced at ports of entry, which is devastating to arizona's cross-border economy. that's why, four months, i have been calling for more federal resources to support border communities. this administration has sent this congress a request for more than $13 billion to hire 1300 more border patrol agents, upgrade technology, and 1000 more agents to