[ought-six]

"Tancredo wants 20,000 Border Guards on the Mexican border. At $50,000 per, that's $1 billion in salaries and benefits. Add $10,000 more for training, that's another $200 million, they're going to need vehicles, comunications infrastructure, processing stations and holding cells to be build all along the border."

Sounds like a bargain to me. We're already paying more than ten times that already for services and benefits to illegal aliens.

[ArneFufkin]

Sounds like a bargain to me. We're already paying more than ten times that already for services and benefits to illegal aliens.

My point was that the price tag associated with Tancredo's initiative would require a Congressional involvement. The entire Dept. of Homeland Security Appropriation was $28 billion this year, and Tancredo apparently didn't have time, between his media appearances, to fight for the funding of his 20,000 additional border guards through real legislative initiative within the real legislative body where we pay him to be a real legislator.