votes to evoke closure on amendment authored by republican senators bob worker of tennessee and john hovan of rth dakota, that vote closing just moments ago arging that amendment requires 5 secuty triggers to be met before millions of illegal immigrants receive green cars, 700-miles of border fence to becomebecompleted. doublingize of boarer boarder patl to $40,000 and adding thermal imaging unite visioio and drones to border, and everify implementtation and a ent try and exit tracking system for visitors. >> if you are concerned about border securit thisment in is onent inament is one you support certainly, it would not b this amenent. lou: not on the floor but worker and hovan experiencing push back from their own pareff sessions did not buy the future results of those triiger written into the bill. >> the substitute does in the change the fact thato reduction in illegal immigration is ever required. does notthave a resultr aspect to it. lou: senator horan will j join us in moments to give his defense of his border security amendment. >> moving forward sate leader harry reid looking to g

> reporter: after a round of phone calls with key democrats, republican senators bob corker and john hovan have rolled out a so-called border surge amendment in an effort to convince the gop security will be a critical component of immigration reform. >> our legislation will provide significantly more resouerss to secure the border. more manpower, more fencing, more technology. and those resouerss must be fully deployed and operational before green card status is allowed. >> reporter: the amendment estimated to cost more than $30 billion would implement eshgts verify, build. 00 miles of border fencing, add new technology including radar, night vision, and drones, and hire, train, and deploy 20,000 new border agents. >> some people have described this as a border surge. and the fact is that we are investing resouerss and secures our border that have never been employed before. >> reporter: one gave it positive reviews. >> the entire effort of immigration reform hinges on whether or not we get the border security parts of the bill right. if you look at what's being proposed here, this is a d

republicans on the fence and people who you -- you're talking about people like bob corner and john hovan, if they vote for this, you get to the magical 70 number. that's why this amendment is so significant. >> let's talk about that, the calculation is to get at least 70 votes in the senate and put the pressure on the house to pass this. house speaker john boehner has an adamant. he's not going to bring to it the floor unless he thinks he has a majority of the majority. does this work? does it get the house to vote on this and to pass it ultimately? >> supporters of this legislation have always said first things first. let's pass this with as big a majority as possible and see how the 3res sure goes. that's their strategy. it's very possible that republicans say, look, this hasn't happened in the majority of our caucus, we're not goings to bring it to the floor. if there are house republicans who say you know what, what bob corker is doing, what john hoef vin is doing, i approve of that. that's putting resources on the border, you could get a majority of house members supporting it. the