BushCo & GOP Congress refused to fund Border Patrol *after* passing law

[KeepItReal]

Re-Post from weekend:

Saw this on KOS:

Reported in Feb, 2005!

"Bush budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents

President uses law's escape clause to drop funding for new homeland security force

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. "


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

[babylonsister]

1. REC'D!! So in spite of this hugh! speech tonight, he'll still be lying

out his ass, or maybe he just wants to use the military funds to appease the masses. Either way, he's flip-flopping, or should I say floundering.

[KeepItReal]

2. Like someone said, there is a reason why immigration is *now* a crisis

Those elections rolling around....

[babylonsister]

3. Who are they trying to fool? This shows his real intent, and how

very worried he's been about immigration.:eyes:

[KeepItReal]

4. They got the "media" fooled, or at least in their pocket

They just gleefully go along with the immigration issue ad campaign by Bush & Co.

[Supersedeas]

5. CNN is promoting this speech as if it were the SuperBowl-post game hype

brought to you by Blitzer, King, and Anderson