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Where are you getting this stuff from?

Was there a National referendum on how much the American People were willing to spend on illegal immigration and nobody was told?!!

Actually, there is. It's held every two years. If the American public really wanted massive gobs of money spent on immigration enforcement, they'd get it.

We could spend $27 to $90 billion dollars each year and still save money depending on if you ask FAIR, the C.I.S. or Dr. Hubble!

Considering that the loaded rate (i.e., the total cost to the taxpayer) for a federal employee is $120,000 a year, $90 billion gets you 750,000 bodies, minus equipment (such as vehicles and radios) and consumable supplies (such as fuel and batteries for the vehicles and radios). That translates to 75,000 people on post at any given moment, assuming that there's a tooth-to-tail ratio of 1:1--and that is an undreamed-of level of efficiency in the federal government--a more likely tooth-to-tail ratio is 5:1, which yields 25,000 on post at any given time.

So, in the end, you will spend $90,000,000,000 to place 25,000 unequipped personnel on the Mexican border at any given moment. It will costs slightly more to equip them all. So, I'll assume that Uncle Sam's procurement doesn't buy $600 toilet seats and $26,000 coffee pots (but that's not the way to bet). Now you're down to 20,000--a whopping 10 more bodies per mile of the Mexican border.

What kind of reduction in illegal immigration will that create? 10%? 5%? Would you even notice the difference?

Let's look at what our government can do and how fast they can do it when it's tax paying U.S. citizens and not illegal aliens they want to inconvenience.

The TSA hired more than 60,000 employees from the 1.5 million applicants for those jobs and covered 430 airports in one year's time.

You're saying that there are an average of no more than 10,000 to 12,000 TSA employees available for screening work, at those 430 airports, at any given time?

No, you're saying it's even worse than that. In your example, you claim a total workforce of 750,000 only has 25,000 working at any given time.

So, there are only 2,000 TSA screeners in 430 airports at any given time according to you?

You're also saying that those 60,000 plus TSA employees cost the U.S. Taxpayers $120,000 each per year?

"Considering that the loaded rate..."

There's something "loaded" at your house and it's not just the rate.

LOL!

C'mon Poobs, we're waiting.

Name the federal agency that only has 3% of its total employees on the job at any given time.

Would that be the U.S. Postal Service?

The U.S.P.S. has hired 750,000 workers for every 25,000 it has "on post" at any given time?

Is that what you think, Poohbah?

LOL!