Saturday, May 13, 2006
10,000 vs. 210
Our Dear Embattled Leader is going on prime time TV to talk about immigration. The buzz in DC has him authorizing the use of US troops to patrol the Mexican border. I imagine the Mexican government is quite chagrined to find that their planned, armed invasion of the US has been discovered. With that plot foiled, the troops can then be used to foil the overwhelming horde of camposinos that are swarming over the border, unprotected since the elimination of the 10,000 border patrol agents by ODEL last year.
The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of Bush's austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday.Oh, you didn't know about that little bit of bait and switch? Shame on you! That is how Our Dear Embattled Leader always operates. Talk big and move on before you have to do anything.
Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California, along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year.
But Bush's proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents....
....Retired Adm. James Loy, acting head of the Department of Homeland Security until nominee Michael Chertoff takes over, said funding only 210 new agents was a "recognition that we need to balance those things as we go on down the road with other priorities."
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