This is a pro-Democrat vanity post (none of the above text at the linked site), and it's a lie.
The President said that he would sign either bill and didn't prefer one over the other.
The President has put more than 1000 new border patrol personnel on each border.
The President has put both manned and UAV flights in the air to patrol the border.
1,000 new border patrol is about 19,000 too few.
We need way more than that. And we don't need them all on the border - we also need interior enforcement to include raids and deportations.
The President has put both manned and UAV flights in the air to patrol the border.
Not true. The UAVs were a pre-election show designed to shut up some of the border reformers. They have been grounded. I live where they patrol, they're not patrolling anymore, and local news reports say that they have been grounded. Manned flights? There's always been some helicopters down here used by Border Patrol - nothing new about that.
Well it is a vanity post, you got me on that. ;-)
But Pro-Democrat? C'mon. Maybe considering whether Rove's strategy is effective should wait until after the election. But now our attention is riveted to the finer points of electoral politics, and it is no sin to consider whether or not one element of Bush's strategy is effective (And maybe I am not the only one tired of being fretting over contradictory weather vane polls day after day!).
Concern over our borders is a powerful reason to vote for Bush. There is hope with GWB, absolutely none with Kerry.
What are you smoking?
The majority of agents that went to the northern border came from the southern border. Very few of the promised new hires were hired and agents are leaving almost as fast as they are being hired.
On the southern border, our manpower is basically the same as it was prior to 9/11, give or take a few dozen agents.