Yet even Clinton was able to do a far better job of interior enforcement then Bush with less money. And Congress authorized 2000 new Border Patrol Agents last year and Bush only requested 210 in his budget. So don't tell me he is trying to do something. The expansion of the Border Patrol we got this year was shoved down his unwilling throat.
1,700 Border Patrol Agents Assigned. Dec. 7, 2005, Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff announced the fiscal year 2006 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent deployment schedule. An additional 1,700 CBP Border Patrol agents will be assigned to the southwest border as follows: Arizona, 643 agents, Texas, 452 agents, California, 352 agents, and New Mexico, 253 agents.