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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Are they being registered to vote while they’re at it?
are the border agents too stupid to revolt at this action?
hire someone to do a job then tell them not to do it?
what are they doing all day? sitting on their asses?
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People do what the signer of their paycheck tells them to do.
The money is needed for surveillance in Oregon, I guess?
The “bombshell” is that Obama is ordering aerial surveillance to be cut in half. But then if you’re not going to do anything about those who make it across, why even bother to apprehend them in the first place. So in that regard, I suppose Obama has a point - might as well save some of that gasoline the drones would be using up for no reason.
No opposition is going to check mate him, so we should all bow to our new royal ObamperorMessiah.
Great point!
The Congress is replete with co-opted criminals who are hesitant to hold the criminal president accountable...for anything. Traitors abound!
The end of his reign can be compared to Hitler’s where the executions were drastically stepped up as time was running out.
What would you expect from a Muslim Traitor?
Bammy is going scorched earth in his final months in office.
0bamanus Feculencis Caligula..
He’s running out of time to get as much chaos going, as he can make happen, in America. He must be sad that clock-boy and family flew the coop.
Though he’s done a lot already.
Bkmrk
He is doing his best to get this country as a minority, white, Christian , Euro heritage country.
He is telling more future illegals to come here quick and there will be no border security.
Half the people in this country don’t believe we should even have a border.
so it is 6x now?
moron
Yes, lovely ‘debate’ skills I see from the Cruz worshipers. Really great way to rally to the cause.
Douche-bag
To me now, comes the word, nimby! With scumbag mullah obama ordering -just catch and release- I'll bet even more folks will be buying rifles, shotguns, and hand guns.
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*...the following just happened at our large pre- Xmas family dinner /we had about 16 family members over, some from Dallas. My nephew and his little cousin, age 7 were sitting beside each other / all 18 of us were seated at our long dining room table/and I'll paraphase:
With everyone eating it was somewhat quiet and my older brother said to his son seated across from us......"I'll co-sign a loan for you if you want to have your own business." My brother then said..."the burglar bar business -you can make a good living" ... his son said "how come that kind of business now"...my brother repeated... "the burglar bar business, because a lot of people are worried about all the immigrants and illegals that are coming and that means many home owners will be wanting burglar bars installed."
Our 7 year old cousin had been 'all ears' and she said to Bobby (my nephew) -sitting beside her "...how come that business Bobby"?
And my nephew turned and got right in her face and said in a pretty loud voice:
"Because the boogy man is coming." That scared her -she burst into tears... she got up and run to the other side of the table to her mom.
It may be time for local militias to start rotating duty on the border. Identifiable gang bangers, dope smugglers and non-Mexican/Central Americans (Muslims in particular) need the SSS* treatment. The others need to be turned back with threats frightening enough that they decide to stay home.
*Shoot, shovel and shut up, for the few here unfamiliar with the acronym.
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