China has selected 200 officers from its larger border patrol force for the river patrols.
The army wants the rebels to disarm and join a government border patrol force, as required under a new Constitution.
The Corker-Hoeven plan would increase the border patrol force to 40,000 agents from 21,000 and require 700 miles of new fencing.
Both Mr. Laschet and Ms. Böhmer, in their comments to Süddeutsche Zeitung, demanded a new role for the European border patrol force Frontex.
The deal calls for a "border surge" that nearly doubles the current border patrol force to 40,000 agents from 21,000, as well as for the completion of 700 miles of fence on the nation's southern border.
The $40 billion Corker-Hoeven proposal that received Senate approval on Monday includes an estimated $25 billion for nearly doubling the size of the border patrol force, and also calls for a $3.2 billion high-tech surveillance plan.
The U.S. and United Kingdom also agreed to jointly sound out the Government of Bangladesh on its post-mutiny reorganization plans for the Bangladesh Rifles and then work together to help make it a more effective border patrol force.
In an effort to secure passage of the embattled immigration bill, two Republicans, Bob Corker and John Hoeven, are proposing an amendment that would, according to The New York Times, call for an increase in "the current border patrol force to 40,000 agents from 21,000, as well as for the completion of 700 miles of fence on the nation's southern border".
(Mexico does not have a border-patrol force).
It was only keeping up with the Joneses — FBI, DEA, Border Patrol, police forces everywhere — who have all been busy doing exactly the same thing.
General Abizaid said officials at next week's meeting will also discuss time lines for training and fielding Iraqi police, border patrol and civil defense forces, and establishing ways to measure their progress to ensure they are ready for duty.
