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Bombshell: Obama to cut border surveillance in half
WND ^ | 5 Feb 2016 | Leo Hohmann

Posted on 02/05/2016 11:30:24 AM PST by amorphous

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to cut 50 percent of the budget for aerial surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border, agents revealed at a congressional hearing Thursday.

In an effort to understand why DHS is cutting funding, Texas's Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, wrote a bi-partisan letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson.

"Any decrease in aerial observation is not only imprudent, but contradicts the very mission of border security enforcement," the letter states.

The lawmakers' letter also asks for detailed information about the reduction aerial-based border security, also known as Operation Phalanx.

Abbott and Cuellar describe news of the funding cut for border security as "unsettling."

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abbott; aerial; aerialsurveillance; border; bordersecurity; budget; cuellar; cut; cuts; dhs; funding; gregabbott; henrycuellar; ice; mexico; obama; operationphalanx; security; surveillance; texas
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"We have also heard that Border Patrol has been ordered to just catch and release illegals without detaining them," he said. "With the new unprecedented wave of illegal immigration coming in via the 'border Surge' and the new wave of (more than 28,000) Cubans illegally immigrating to the U.S., it appears word has reached all reaches of the Earth that America's defensive shields have been sabotaged from within."

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Furthermore on Thursday a top Border Patrol agent revealed that if border agents follow the law and ask illegal aliens why they are coming to the U.S. they will be terminated, the Daily Caller reported.

"Right now the Border Patrol has actually told us that we can no longer ask them that question, why are they coming any more?" Judd testified. "We can't even ask that question. In some cases we still do, but we are being told that you can’t even ask why they are coming."

"What do you think are the consequences for agents who are unwilling to comply with these limiting policies?" asked Rep. Raul Labrador.

"They'll be terminated," Judd replied.

1 posted on 02/05/2016 11:30:24 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

I’m surprised he’s leaving half of it.


2 posted on 02/05/2016 11:32:01 AM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: amorphous

I guess there’s still plenty of time to register undocumented democratic voters for November.


3 posted on 02/05/2016 11:34:11 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: amorphous

Completing the invasion.


4 posted on 02/05/2016 11:35:45 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: amorphous

Where’s the bombshell? The fact we even have a border security is a joke under Obozo!
Freegards
LEX


5 posted on 02/05/2016 11:36:47 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: amorphous

http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/bombshell-obama-to-cut-border-surveillance-in-half/


6 posted on 02/05/2016 11:36:53 AM PST by Whenifhow
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7 posted on 02/05/2016 11:37:21 AM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: PROCON

It’s getting ugly.


8 posted on 02/05/2016 11:37:22 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

This doesn’t matter give 100% of the current patrol has permanent stand down orders and/or catch and release.


9 posted on 02/05/2016 11:39:00 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Whenifhow

Thanks, that’s twice that’s happened to me recently. Not sure what the deal is.


10 posted on 02/05/2016 11:39:58 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Just in time for the elections. How convenient.


11 posted on 02/05/2016 11:40:21 AM PST by reegs
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To: TBP

Exactly. This is just the beginning of what this putz is going to do his last year in office.


12 posted on 02/05/2016 11:41:19 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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"Right now the Border Patrol has actually told us that we can no longer ask them that question, why are they coming any more?"

Yesterday on Special Report they presented a piece on the border. Agents are in fact asking a couple of questions. If the respondent claims to not have a felony record and was in the US in recent years, they are free to go.

Un-Fn-believable.

13 posted on 02/05/2016 11:43:01 AM PST by moehoward
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

This is just the beginning of what this putz is going to do his last year in office.


That’s for certain.


14 posted on 02/05/2016 11:43:09 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: DoughtyOne
VOTE REPUBILICAN..... can anyone not believe Barry O does everything he can to Kill/Destroy/Rune/FU the USA.....he's a traitor and muslim......why can't you see that???????
15 posted on 02/05/2016 11:44:51 AM PST by mastertex
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To: mastertex

Is that a serious question to me?


16 posted on 02/05/2016 11:47:38 AM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: amorphous

wait till next year when he announces that border crossings went down because his agents are not intercepting more illegals at the border.


17 posted on 02/05/2016 11:49:42 AM PST by PCPOET7
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To: amorphous

BP follows the law, for which they are hired, and expected, to do...they are terminated.

The chief Executive DOESN’T follow the law, for which he was elected, and expected to do...get everything he wants from the GOP Congress, nary a talking-down from the Courts and re-elected.

Ain’t America grand?!

I’m sure we’ll be hearing from Ryan/McTurle ANY day now, right? *crickets*

Rubio? *crickets*

6x H1-B Visa-Man? *crickets*

Trump? The only possibility I see.


18 posted on 02/05/2016 11:55:42 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: amorphous

Democrats see illegals as new loyal voters to pit against blacks who might get uppity...


19 posted on 02/05/2016 11:58:29 AM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos's moderating the Republican debate because Bill Clinton and David Axelrod were busy)
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To: amorphous

gotta replace those working-class whites who left the Democrat Party somehow.


20 posted on 02/05/2016 11:58:40 AM PST by TraditionalMerica
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