Bush budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents

[True_Blue]

Washington -- 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.

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.

The shrunken increase reflects the lack of money for an army of border guards and the capacity to train them, officials said.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/09/MNGOKB837T1.DTL

[flyarm]

1. homeland security ..homeland security...hurry up terrorists...

bush is holding the door open for you ..come and get us!!

and what was this lie of a war about??

our security..where are our troops?? and who are rhey protecting???

ohhhh geeeezzzz what a lying thug..are there really people out there that believe anything this nut case in our w.h. says...are there realllllly people this dumb??

wanna know why i took early retirement as a flight attendant for one of the airlines who were blown to bits because of this nut case *'s incompetance??

wow we need another planet for the deeply disturbed who still believe this pig liar..we need to put them on another planet like lepers..before there is nothing left of us!

fly

[MnFats]

2. i guess this means we can't even raise the issue of our northern border...

....lotta wilderness up there for anybody to cross if they can hack hiking the forest and paddling across some water.

Interesting....Roseau County wanted some new radio system & boosted power so some lonely sheriff's deputy could call for reinforcements if he/she happened to be out in the countryside and found a division of Osama's brigades crossing Lake of the Woods. The answer was no.

[NC_Nate]

4. A safer america.....

How can we secure Iraq's borders when we can't even patrol ours??? :eyes:

[magellan]

3. Oh hell, let's just build a wall

If Israel can do it then it must be a good idea...right?

On a related note, anyone know the status of Bush**'s inspired immigration plan -- the one where illegal workers will be given all sorts of prizes for making it across the border and finding a job before they're caught?

[Erika]

5. The "Real" conservatives are infuriated at W

They realize that without immigration control we have no safety, heavy indigent costs, and a pool of low income workers to drive down wages for U.S. citizens.

Bush is once again giving into big business and world corporatism. He wants to be King of the planet with little interest for the working class of America.

[Mich Otter]

36. a pool of low income workers to drive down wages for U.S. citizens

Is it fair that companies are allowed, even encouraged, to move anywhere they wish in the world to find the lowest possible wage earners but, workers face guns and even death to get to go to a job that can give them a decent living?
America ought to be spreading the right to join a real Union so workers can get a raise in their standard of living. Only when wages and standards of living improve in the rest of the world will people be able to stay home and live as they should.

[CoffeeCat]

6. This is the budget of a madman...

...truly, has the man lost his marbles?

He's not even trying to hide his mental defects, anymore.

My guess is that * had lied and lied and lied so many times--that he feels there's no point in lying any more.

He can't come out and say, "Look people. The War on Terrorism is a public-relations, fear-generating ploy that allows me to parlay your fear into accepting my every move. First, I needed to go into Iraq--so I rode the wave of 9/11 terror into the sands of Baghdad. I don't care about your safety, but I want you to feel unsafe. That's how I get things done!"

His policies and budget clearly demonstrate that he doesn't expect any additional terror attacks. Either that or he wants another terror attack. We don't inspect incoming cargo. Thousands pour across our border daily. Our nuclear and chemical plants are not secure. Funding was just cut for cops, fireman and border agents.

He's not even hiding his sick, twisted, very-bizarre agenda.

The unraveling of * has begun. He's not even pretending to give a rip about this country.

[RedSock]

22. that's where you're wrong

I think * COULD come out and say those exact words -- and do that wheezing little laugh he does -- and the Koolaid Kult would still cheer, throw him their money and call him God's son.

Scary shit indeed.

[Historic NY]

7. Ain't them A-rabs coming across the border........

so says our vaunted Homeland Security alerts...couple weeks back it was Chinese.

[Lorien]

8. HEY FREEPS! DON'T YA FEEL SAFER????

:eyes:

[driver8]

16. Freeps should be ashamed for falling for his shit.

If they would have listened to us instead of to Bushitler and the rest of the right wing bullshitters...we wouldn't be in this mess.

We would have a sane, well spoken, intelligent man as our President instead of a crazy, bumbling, dipshit psychopath.

IMPEACH!!!!

[cthrumatrix]

24. GOP media keeps them nice and uniformed.....

[underpants]

33. *smack**smack**smack*

Damn another smackdown on the faithful.

[PartyPooper]

9. I just nominated this thread for the homepage. It deserves to be there

to show the lying hypocrisy of this Bu$h administration.

[oasis]

20. I second the nomination.

:hi:

[lovuian]

10. Welcome to America come on in!!!

What a Joke and Welcome terrorists!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Ain't we safer?

for the record he has been lying on everything else, why should he tell the truth bout this?

[driver8]

17. I've asked this before -- Has shrub ever told the truth??

He's got more shit than a Christmas goose!

[teryang]

12. Rich corporatists want as many illegals as possible

...it's part of a deliberate policy of degrading labor standards nationally. The banana republic is becoming a reality.

[daleo]

13. The $100 million Bush is bribing Poland with in Iraq could help here.

Mind you, that's peanuts compared to the hundreds of billions that fiasco is costing anyway.

[LynnTheDem]

14. Signed into law BEFORE the election...and Flip-Flop AFTER election

bush sure is a MAN OF HIS WORD.

bush sure DOES WHAT HE SAYS.

Oh look! Another BUSH FLIP-FLOP.

Poor rightwingnuts; PUNK'D AGAIN by bush.

[driver8]

15. Oh yeah -- shrub is keeping 'Merkkka safe.

What a freakin' loser...

C'mon in boys -- the borders are open!!

[pacifictiger]

18. one thing that is not often mentioned

about the illegals from latin america crossing the border: Recent reports indicate that catholic fundamentalism in southern states is growing at incredible rate - a ready made market for the fundie politicos. And those raised south of the border don't worry too much about small details like corrupt leaders - they're used to it.

[ixion]

19. austere, only if you're not in the military industrial complex

if you're business is building weapons, or providing mercenaries, or your name happens to be Haliburton, why you're rolling in dough as a result of the cronyism, looting and bid-rigging so popular with the Bushistas.

[Disturbed]

21. One Million crossing southern border a month.

Who cares?

[leftchick]

23. this ought to put Lou Dobbs in a tizzy

yet he will still wax poetic about how great the CIC** is even with these "little flaws".

:puke:

[ucmike]

25. hypocrisy so deep we have to swim through it...

and the loyal followers are so happy to be swept along in the flow....

why aren't we storming the castle?

[Kansas Wyatt]

26. When you have so many workers...

Happy to be working for minimum wage or below it, then there is no reason to raise minimum wage. Incomes for the lower and middle classes are affected by an over abundance of cheap labor, but the upper class loves to pay next to nothing for cheap labor. The upper class can keep more and make more money with cheap labor.

That is the single most important reason why BushCo and his Banana Republic of Amerika will NEVER do anything about Third World workers replacing American workers here in the Banana Republic of Amerika (formerly known as the United States of America).

[Magmadona]

27. I hope some of you notice the real reason behind this firing.

Think population and Jeb Bush... In 2008 guess who will be most grateful..

[pacifictiger]

37. and devout,

poorly educated, latin-american catholics who are used to corrupt leaders, will be ripe for the fundie picking.

[Betsy Ross]

28. Why do we need southern border patrols?

* is inviting them all in as guest workers. But we do need to keep them Canadian scabs out.

[drummer55]

29. once again I am shocked by the foolishness of this admin. n/t

[Az_lefty]

30. This has been posted at Freeperville....

they don't seem too happy....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1340429/posts?page=2

[SOS]

31. Iraq too

One of Viceroy Bremer's first acts in Iraq was to fire the Iraqi border patrol.
This left dozens of border crossings wide open.
This administration would rather endanger American lives than meet a payroll.

[Delphinus]

32. Ok ...

how does this play into the bill, 418 (?), where the Homeland Security chief has ultimate authority? Or maybe it doesn't and I'm just thinking it does.

[demo dutch]

34. Well it looks like it just a matter of time before something

will happen. I don't think he'll last 4 years

[TroglodyteScholar]

35. Don't even PRETEND to care about our ACTUAL national security

Man I hope this 2nd Bush term implodes quickly so we can hurry up and start cleaning up the mess...