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Efforts to secure US borders 'have slowed since 9/11'
MSNBC ^ | April 11, 2006 | Christopher Swann

Posted on 04/11/2006 1:15:55 PM PDT by Marine Inspector

The growth in the number of agents patrolling US borders has slowed in the 4½ years since the September 11 terrorist attacks and concerns over illegal immigration override fears of terrorist infiltration in the allocation of border resources, according to a new analysis

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alien; aliens; borderlist; bordersecurity; canada; cbp; dhs; illegal; mexicoborderpatrol; terorism
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To: OldFriend

It just astonishes me--though it shouldn't--how we constantly bash the MSM here, and then a story like this shows up and some of us shout "SEE?! SEE?! Bush is a traitor!!!!"


101 posted on 04/11/2006 5:59:19 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. " TR)
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To: Darkwolf377

I don't see President Bush as a traitor. And I further understand that he does not control the money. Congress controls the money.


102 posted on 04/11/2006 6:08:16 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: jrooney
If a democrat was president right now, they would be praising how secure our borders are.

Hmmmmm. Why aren't they talking about Bush's "new America"?

THE "NEW AMERICAN"

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster

103 posted on 04/11/2006 6:17:46 PM PDT by raybbr
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To: Marine Inspector

Actually, the borders have been leaking like a sieve since 1992 during the Slick Willy reign then through dubya's presidency. Unfortunately, dubya is no better than slick on illegal immigration.


104 posted on 04/11/2006 7:13:28 PM PDT by Mogollon
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To: Mogollon
Actually, the borders have been leaking like a sieve since RR granted amnesty.

It just peaked at the end of BC 2nd term.
105 posted on 04/11/2006 7:18:02 PM PDT by Marine Inspector (Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem)
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To: Marine Inspector; HiJinx; La Enchiladita; Borax Queen; Smartass; onyx; JustPiper

not our imaginations that this has been going on...BUMP


106 posted on 04/11/2006 9:46:50 PM PDT by kstewskis (The Gospel of McPain: thugs, murderers, and terrorists doing the jobs Americans just won't do!)
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To: kstewskis
How incredibly nonsensical. After 9-11, our borders, North and South should have been squeaky air tight. 3000 illegals still crossing daily is ridiculous!

107 posted on 04/11/2006 9:56:45 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Smartass
Exactly. And how many of those are "OTM's"?

Unfrigginbelievable.....

108 posted on 04/11/2006 10:03:55 PM PDT by kstewskis (The Gospel of McPain: thugs, murderers, and terrorists doing the jobs Americans just won't do!)
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To: Shermy

In my heart I know you're right.


109 posted on 04/12/2006 6:33:50 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy (For English, Press One. (Tookie, you won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Oh, too late.))
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To: FerdieMurphy

And a Limey! That explains a lot.


110 posted on 04/12/2006 7:48:23 AM PDT by LS
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To: LS
And so your logical suggestion is to vote for the Dems.

And your logical suggestion is to continue to vote for compassionate rinos?

111 posted on 04/12/2006 9:25:03 AM PDT by Marine Inspector (Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem)
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To: Marine Inspector
Selectively. I think in the case of DeWine, we can---and I will---register non-votes and if he loses, so what? His pro-amnesty, anti-ANWAR votes would not be different with Brown in there. However, if the SENATE were in danger of flipping---as bad as it is---I would hold my nose. I think the proper strategy is to selectively target RINOS and send a message to the others to straighten up. We know it's possible: from the time DeWine came in until last year, he was as solid a conservative vote (regardless of what he 'felt') as there was. But 2004 seems to have "freed" him to drift leftward, and it is that behavior we must identify and punish.

No, I do NOT advocate across-the-board handing the country over to the Dems. But there are proven ways to enforce party discipline by unelecting selective menbers.

112 posted on 04/12/2006 9:30:57 AM PDT by LS
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To: kstewskis

The commies have never, ever, gone away. They are vampires of freedom, ever since the whole McCarthy thing backfired.

Communism is and was a FAILED experiment, but it is the only feasible route to power for losers.

Latin America seems particularly susceptible to totalitarian types of government. The suddenly disgruntled illegals are ripe fruit for the picking.

Huge mistake to legalize these huddled masses; they wouldn't know how to handle FREEDOM responsibly. They need to be led at all times.


113 posted on 04/12/2006 11:57:42 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Is this a nation, or a halfway house for illegals ... ? .... SECURE. THE. BORDER.)
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To: mcshot

I just checked Amazon, I can order cases of Molson now.

The invasion has started...

Is that a moose?


114 posted on 04/12/2006 1:17:44 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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