Bush Budget Scraps 9,790 Border Patrol Agents(Repost 2/9/05)

Houston Chronicle ^ | February 9, 2005 | Michael Hedges

[JerseyHighlander]

This is just one year, I will post article from the 3 prior fiscal years regarding underfunding BP/INS/ICE in a few moments.

Anyone want to bring these immediately available facts into the discussion?

[SUSSA]

Susan Collins is to the right of Lyndon Baines Bush.

[Wolverine]

 

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[goldstategop]

The President's address tonight is just that - talk. If the resources to enforce our laws aren't made available, what you heard will be hot air.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[Mr. Mojo]

I missed the President's speech.

Are the facts reported in this article at odds with what he said tonight?

[AntiGuv]

Talk is cheap.

[SUSSA]

He bragged about all the agents he’s put on the border since he took office.

LOL

It’s like Clinton bragging about reforming welfare or cutting farm subsidies.

[rolling_stone]

I object, the OBL can't deal with facts its unfair to them.

[Shermy]

"He bragged about all the agents he’s put on the border since he took office."

Actually he didn't say that - exactly. He talked about an increase in BP staff, not that they were posted to the Mexican border.

They also do port inspections and such. I think most were slotted for that.

[Socratic]

Don't worry. I'm sure Mr. Bush looked into the soul of Vincente Fox and all is well in the Western hemisphere.

[JerseyHighlander]

2002 Budget as outlined by then Attorney General John Ashcroft called for:

• $75 million for the INS to add 570 new Border Patrol agents in 2002, with plans to add another 570 in 2003.

So, 6000 new agents will approzimately cost us somewhere near $394 million(plus inflation) per year.  California alones spends more than that for medical and education for illegal immigrants every 3 months.

All those pork projects the Senate passes into law, yet they can't ween themselves off the lobbyists of cheap labor to secure the border.  And Bush went out there tonight and insulted the intelligence of the average person, American, Mexican, human, everyone, with that magically appearing Federal bureaucracy and sham NG deployment speech.

[SUSSA]

I didn't say the Mexican border. Ports are the border too.

[Shermy]

I'm not criticizing you at all. I think many people who don't follow this closely would have felt Bush was telling them today those new agents were sent to the Mexican border, the port of entry we naturally think of first.

[xrp]

Almost $3 trillion federal budget and we can't even secure our own borders.

[gaijin]

DERELICTION OF DUTY.

Daddy Bush was a turn-off, sonny's not much better...

[kellynla]

"But Bush's proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents."

Nuff said!

and I will keep on this issue until I see green Six-Bys with a white star on the door loaded with troops rolling southbound down the Five Freeway!

Where's my wall, Mr. President?

[xrp]

The President's address tonight is just that - talk.

How correct you are. The President's Republican handlers have told him that conservatives are PISSED and planning on staying home in November 2006 or voting 3rd party. This is a lame attempt to keep the conservative base in line and try to sucker them into voting for Republicans yet again this fall. Rumor has it that the Constitutional Marriage Amendment (which never has a chance of ratification) is also going to be resurrected this summer.

I can't wait to see the Bushbot cheerleaders then.

[nicmarlo]

bttt

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

This reminds me of Clinton's 100,000 cops and midnight bullfights.