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| Administration Will Cut Border Patrol Deployed on U.S-Mexico Border |
| 2009-09-25 |
| (CNSNews.com) - Even though the Border Patrol now reports that almost 1,300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is not under effective control, and the Department of Justice says that vast stretches of the border are “easily breached,” and the Government Accountability Office has revealed that three persons “linked to terrorism” and 530 aliens from “special interest countries” were intercepted at Border Patrol checkpoints last year, the administration is nonetheless now planning to decrease the number of Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border. Border Patrol Director of Media Relations Lloyd Easterling confirmed this week--as I first reported in my column yesterday--that his agency is planning for a net decrease of 384 agents on the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2010, which begins on October 1. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Smugglers can drive trucks from Mexico to the heart of Phoenix without touching a road. Reducing border patrol will make it so they can drive a fleet of trucks instead. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-09-25 23:22 |
| #7 This has become an issue for the states to take care of, since the Feds are being constrained. It's time the rest stopped waiting, and just send in their version of the Texas Rangers to supplement along the border as needed, and have the state sheriffs and local police act to expel illegals as they come across them. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-09-25 18:00 |
| #6 Yet another example of thehow this administration is now acting in a manner contrary to what was promised in the campaign. Secure borders, then immigration reform really meant less enforcemnt (remember they already stopped workplace raids inside the borders)and an amnesty bill with immediate social program access timed to next elections to garner votes. Folks, we are systemmatically losing control of our country! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2009-09-25 17:03 |
| #5 donks are worried about the 2010 elections. They need more voters. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-09-25 11:39 |
| #4 One word: "OYE"! borgboy from Tucson (60 miles north of Already Porous border). |
| Posted by: borgboy 2009-09-25 10:47 |
| #3 Maybe those "black helicopter" types weren't so far off. After you get rid of border controls you will naturally start getting political mergers. (See EU) |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-09-25 09:52 |
| #2 Just an incidental step in the next transnational progressive act of 'immigration reform'. Why need agents when you have virtually no border? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-09-25 08:24 |
| #1 almost 1,300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is not under effective control ...and reducing the number of Border Patrol will increase effectiveness of interdiction? I read where Nashville is one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S. because it is one of the cities on the end of the Mexican drug cartel distribution network. I lived there 40 years ago and it was a decent and nice place to live. Most other dangerous cities in the U.S. are dangerous for the same reason. Gangs have proliferated in Nashville and across the U.S. over the years. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-09-25 07:23 |