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Costing more than $40 billion over 10 years, the “border surge” and fencing proposal is so expensive that it was virtually unthinkable just a week or two ago — until an unexpectedly generous scoring of the broader immigration bill by the Congressional Budget Office left the bill’s backers with a pot of cash (at least in budgeting terms) that could be used to sweeten the deal and get more Republicans on board.
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Just last week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) criticized as misdirected a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to add 5,000 Customs agents and 5,000 Border Patrol agents.
Now McCain is backing the 20,000 agent boost.
Backers of the “border surge” proposal, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), are describing it as, in essence, a militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border— the kind of approach President Obama publicly stated in 2009 that he opposed.” Yep, the amnesty gang got the CBO to produce a score that says that the illegals will become a national cash cow under their amnesty bill (hows that working with Reagan amnesty receipients?)
Of course the CBO scored Obama-care the same way till it was passed, then they revised its score after it was passed to show it adds to the debt rather than the opposite.
Its Obama-care-immigration-reform.
‘Gotta pass it to see what's in it’