Bush's border security plans draw praise, complaints
Feb 4, 2007
WASHINGTON President Bush proposed Monday to increase spending on border security by 19 percent next year, a move hailed by one conservative critic as a step in the right direction but assailed by congressional Democrats as insufficient to shore up serious security lapses.
The president's budget proposal included nearly $500 million to hire 2,200 new Border Patrol agents and $2 billion over two years for fencing and high-tech surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The proposal also calls for beefed-up detention facilities near the border and for an expansion of a federal program to assist, train and coordinate with state and local law enforcement on immigration cases.
Bush also suggested expanding several programs that deal with immigrants far from the border.
He proposed spending $100 million to expand and fix glitches in the "E-Verify" system that allows employers to check electronically if potential employees are legally in the U.S.
No one’s dragging their feet.
They are blocking it.
The puppet masters have decreed NO borders . . . North American Union . . .
You don’t think Shrillery wants to be Queen of the ‘mere’ /only old US OF A, do you?