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."
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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 canât 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.
I’m surprised he’s leaving half of it.
I guess there’s still plenty of time to register undocumented democratic voters for November.
Completing the invasion.
Where’s the bombshell? The fact we even have a border security is a joke under Obozo!
Freegards
LEX
It’s getting ugly.
This doesn’t matter give 100% of the current patrol has permanent stand down orders and/or catch and release.
Thanks, that’s twice that’s happened to me recently. Not sure what the deal is.
Just in time for the elections. How convenient.
Exactly. This is just the beginning of what this putz is going to do his last year in office.
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.
This is just the beginning of what this putz is going to do his last year in office.
That’s for certain.
Is that a serious question to me?
wait till next year when he announces that border crossings went down because his agents are not intercepting more illegals at the border.
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.
Democrats see illegals as new loyal voters to pit against blacks who might get uppity...
gotta replace those working-class whites who left the Democrat Party somehow.
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