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| Senate Panel Pushes for More Border Agents |
| 2005-06-18 |
| WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Efforts to toughen security along the troubled U.S.-Mexican border advanced in Congress on Thursday as a Senate panel authorized $322.9 million for an additional 1,000 border patrol agents and 500 support personnel. "We can't allow our borders to be a weakness," said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, after the Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed her proposal for beefing up the border patrol. Hutchison, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas; and other Southwestern lawmakers are calling for tougher enforcement along the border following a rash of violence and continued reports that terrorists may be planning to sneak into the United States from Mexico. The concerns gained new urgency after the killing of a police chief in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo, which has been virtually paralyzed by drug wars. U.S. authorities fear the violence may be spreading across the Rio Grande into Laredo and elsewhere in Texas. Now for the obligatory "True, but Smarmy Backhand-Written Paragraph": Hutchison, in a rare break with the Republican White House, has sharply attacked President Bush's 2006 budget request that called for only 210 additional border patrol agents, a 10-fold reduction from the 2,000 agents Congress requested last year when it overhauled the nation's intelligence system. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #3 These guys can recruit all the BP agents they want, but until the government decides to get tough on illegal immigration and immigration law enforcement, not much is going to change. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-18 11:54 |
| #2 ...Sadly, until a bunch of Americans are dead from someone who can be proven to have come across the border (and the MSM will hold it to a courtroom level of proof), nothing serious will be done. The United States Army or the relevant National Guards. On the border. NOW. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-06-18 11:09 |
| #1 U.S. authorities fear the violence may be spreading across the Rio Grande into Laredo and elsewhere in Texas. Err...you mean the murders, rapes, robberies and other mayhem already committed by the illegals throughout the United States which both party's administrations have let across, don't qualify as violence? |
| Posted by: Snetle Tholurong5083 2005-06-18 08:57 |