first of all, scap funding is something that continues to be short changed by your budgets. skap, of course, is the reimbursement for local law -- counties that incarcerate illegal alien prisoners. along the border, our counties are generally very poor and don't have those kinds of resources. each year you continue to not fund. we did put the money back in last year, $240 million. i would hope you would support increasing that as we go through this process because we must incarcerate these illegal alien criminals who are mostly in the drug cartel operations so this will not be borne by the counties on the border. in response to operatias, langu included in last year's bill that would prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from selling operable weapons to cartels. this request that you're giving us removes that language, saying it's unnecessary. mr. attorney general, we want to make positively sure that what happened does not happen again. i would hope that you would support our insertion of that language again. last year, our commerce justice state bill provided $10 milli

first of all, scap funding is something that continues to be shortchanged by your budget, and scap is the reimbursement for local counties that incarcerate illegal alien prisoners. along the border, our counties are generally very poor and do not have those kinds of resources, and each year you continue to not fund. we put the money back in last year, $240 million, but i would hope you would support increasing that as we go through this process because we must incarcerate these illegal alien criminals who are mostly in the drug cartel operations so that this will not be borne by the county's on the border. language was included in last year's bill that would prohibit a law enforcement agencies from selling operable weapons to cartels. this request that you are giving us removes that language, saying it is unnecessary. we want to make positively sure, and that what happened does not happen again, and i would hope you would support our insertion of that language again. last year, our commerce justice state bill provided $10 million to expand the capacity of the overcrowded help tasso in