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Obama Proposes to Cut 180 Border Patrol Agents

Obama Proposes to Cut 180 Border Patrol Agents

Pres. Obama Proposes to Cut 180 Border Patrol Agents

Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 1:20 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Pres. Barack Obama's newly proposed 2011 budget would reduce the number of Border Patrol agents along the Southwest border by 180 and cut the funding for the "virtual fence." Homeland Security said it plans to cut the jobs through attrition, and it would result in increased pay for the remaining agents.

White House senior officials say the move will not compromise the effectiveness of the border patrol. But House Judiciary Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) says otherwise.

    The President’s budget proves once again that the Obama administration is not serious about enforcing our nation’s immigration laws.

    The administration found money for 25 new positions in the Secretary of Homeland Security’s management office, but didn’t find funds for any of the following critical homeland security programs: there is no funding for a single new detention bed, no increase in funds to find and deport immigration fugitives or criminal aliens, no additional special agents to investigate workplace immigration violations, no funding to expand the visa security program, and no funding to build any more of the border fence.

    The President ought to be using immigration enforcement to address key priorities such as jobs and national security. But instead of doing so, the Obama administration is maintaining the status quo. That means that citizens and legal immigrants will be forced to continue to compete with eight million illegal immigrants for jobs; and by underfunding key national security programs, we leave ourselves vulnerable to future terrorists attacks.

    -- Ranking Member Lamar Smith

The "virtual fence" would have funding cut by $226 million. The system is made up of cameras, radar and sensors placed on towers.

Obama's budget does include an increase of $103 million for improvements to E-Verify

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Regardless what they say, both parties seem to offer little support to the middle class. They both look over the American families needs, and suck up to their fringes. It's just so amazing. How much decline can wide-screen, high definition, 100 channel cable television hide? I really thought when the banks slammed their back doors shut and called for quick pay-offs of unsecured debts the crap would hit the fan. But there was only grumbling. The Tea Parties are for those who are financially able to attend. The real middle class must be hammering down in their efforts to keep what they've got with no opportunity to pay much attention to the bigger picture. Well, they do have that bigger picture on the rent-to-own flat screen. It keeps them occupied, obviously.

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jpb wrote:

The Tea Parties are for those who are financially able to attend.

They've held Tea Parties at a Church and at City Hall in Tupelo.  That's more middle class than say at the BancorpSouth Center or at the Furniture Market!

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I thought everyone who attended a tea party had to dress as an Indian and pay a tax to Rush Limbaugh.

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The tea parties that made such grand videos on Faux News were held during the day. The working middle class have jobs and families. I recall my efforts to speak to the city council here and finding it difficult to get there even at 6:00p.m. I went in late and dirty directly from work.The tea party crowd seems to be business owners who are free to take the day off and retired people who have sufficient investment incomes to feel free to travel. They weren't checkers and sackers from Wal-Mart.

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The tea parties that made such grand videos on Faux News were held during the day.

I wouldn't call 6 pm exactly during a normal work day.  Most of the people who spoke were working class people, nurses, factory workers, tellers from banks, and I remember there being quite a few retirees.  I don't know where you get your information from jpb, but it doesn't match with reality.

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Not to mention....that people sometimes take personal time off or paid holiday off for days or events that mean something to them.

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MLK is being given a lot of attention since its Black History Month. On a PBS program the civil rights leader was attributed with scheduling and locating and orchestrating events for the best coverage and positive slant by the media. Obviously he was successfull. And intelligent people copy success. Can I assume that intelligent people are behind these "parties?" They are obviously no more spontaneous than the march on the bridge in Birmingham.

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The tea parties are chock full of intelligent people, jpb, so I guess your assumption is correct.

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Most seem above average in intelligence, K-R. But the intelligent aren't always correct. Even I have been wrong on occasion.

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