Recovery & Reinvestment Act Spending(As of Aug, 4th)Border Patrol Spending this week $73,742,288

Federal Procurement Data System ^ | September 4, 2009 | FPDS

[libertarian27]

As of this week- Stimulus Spending is at: $20,726,309,285.22 At the link on the upper right will be a listing: *American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Report* Updated as of 9/4/2009.

New contracts signed this week are for design and construction of 10 land port of entry buildings for customs and border protection. 6 In North Dakota,1 in Vermont, New Mexico and Montana (The one in Vermont isn't even near the border, in Killingly.)

[libertarian27]

And, what isn't Stimulus spending without updating campgrounds and National parks? Lots of picnic tables, firepits and low flow toilet upgrades at campgrounds.

Stimulating/sarc

[hinckley buzzard]

Speaking of the Border, how's that fence coming along? With all these trillions sloshing around looking for a home, we should have a first rate fence from the Gulf to the Pacific by now.

[libertarian27]

Please change title to Sept 4th.

Apparently I don’t want the summer to go away....

[libertarian27]

Haven’t seen much fencing supplies on the stimulus spending - I read these every week - looking for the new spending.

Lots of painting funding going on last week, I’m handy with a brush - I wonder if anyone is hiring/sarc.

The firm that got most of the border building contracts is MCC/Catamount, I checked their website - they aren’t hiring.

[Hulka]

Ports of Entry (POE) work is ICE, not Border Patrol.

BP works between POE, whereas the ICE Agents work POE.

[libertarian27]

This is how one is listed:

DEPT OF DEFENSE DEPT OF THE ARMY
U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS - CIVIL PROGRAM FINANCING ONLY
COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

TAS::96 3134::TAS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT LAND PORT OF ENTRY AT CARBURY NORTH DAKOTA FOR CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION
$7,004,000.00

[Hulka]

Yes, Customs and Border Protection is a superior organization to Border Patrol in DHS and CBP has many organizations under it, and one of those organizations is Border Patrol. However, the buildings are being built to support POEs, that is, Immigration and Customs Enforcement because ICE Agents work POEs---not the Border Patrol.

So, wherever the title of the thread came from, whoever wrote it, they were misinformed because they did not differentiate between ICE and Border Patrol. Just try and tell a Border Patrol Agent he is ICE, or vice versa, and you will have a real “Army/Navy” argument on your hand. They are very different agencies under CBP, like the Army and Navy are very different services under DOD.

I see no contradiction in the post of the notification. The title of the thread is misleading.

That's all.

[TheZMan]

Wonder how much wall we could build for $70 million...