2005-border patrol funding dropped: 2006-funds only for 210 new agents

[babylonsister]

Take 2 - -> Who's foolin' who? Why now, and why should anyone believe this admin? What are their ulterior motives? And pray tell, why aren't the media whores running with this? Talk about sloppy/lazy reporting. I think the majority of reporters/journalists need a new moniker that's more fitting to describe their slothfulness. Media sloths? Any suggestions?:grr: :grr:

Originally posted by KeepItReal:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2626644

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

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."