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| 2005-10-09 |
| The massive Homeland Security appropriations bill Congress passed will bring aboard 790 new Border Patrol agents, including an unspecified number for Arizona. I'll specify. Probably 3. It also will provide $35 million for construction of roads, lights and barriers on the Arizona-Mexico Border, and two replacement Border Patrol stations in the state - at Sonoita and Willcox - with facilities for processing and detaining illegal immigrants. The $31.9 billion budget package includes $9 billion for border security nationwide. Though I'm sure by "barrier" they mean painting "do not cross" along the border. Earlier this year, another 210 new Border Patrol agents were funded in President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, and a supplemental budget package in support of the Iraqi war effort provided for 500 more border patrol agents and additional resources, said Sal Zamora, a Border Patrol spokesman in Washington. He said it was too soon to say where and how agents and other new resources will be deployed. "It would be safe to assume that the Southwest border is the focus Not the Lake Huron shoreline? and that Arizona and New Mexico" will receive some of the new agents," Zamora said. The Homeland Security bill also will add 250 new U.S. Customs and immigration investigators and 460 other enforcement officers, along with some 1,800 beds in expanded detention facilities to improve capabilities for expedited removal |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #1 How many rounds of .30-'06 can you get for $79 million? Even at government prices probably enough to secure the border if you REALLY wanted to. |
| Posted by: Grans Theting3646 2005-10-09 21:09 |