The plan would also include what the aide calls “a whole gaggle” of border security infrastructure — infrared sensors, drones, and other high-tech devices, which the aide says would be “enough to give situational awareness along the whole border.”

The deal also calls for the full implementation of the E-Verify employment security system, which is already a part of the Gang bill as it is today.

Finally, the arrangement calls for the implementation of an entry-exit system at the nation’s airports and other entry points. But it would be a bio-graphic system, not a higher-tech biometric system that many Republicans have wanted. The bio-graphic versus biometric issue has been a point of contention throughout negotiations over the Gang bill, but Hoeven and Corker appeared to have resolved it in favor of the lower-tech solution.

The deal also reaches an agreement in a dispute over who should design the border security plan — the Department of Homeland Security, as the current bill provides, or Congress, as some Republicans prefer. According to the aide, under the Hoeven-Corker amendment, DHS would have to submit a comprehensive border security plan to Congress, but it would have to include all the minimum requirements that Congress dictates in the amendment.