January 25, 2005

President won't add 2,000 border agents

Ah, today's "Sun to shine tomorrow" post:

Despite his signing a bill authorizing 2,000 new border agents, President Bush will not ask Congress for enough money to fund them.

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told USA Today yesterday that the administration's new budget will propose "good incremental increase" in the number of agents but would not approach the 2,000 level...

"The notion that you're going to have 10,000 is sort of a fool's gold," Ridge told the paper. "It's nice to say you're going to have 10,000 more Border Patrol agents in five years, but what other part of Homeland Security do you want to take the money from?"

One of these days I'm going to have to go to the library and copy the Mother Jones article "Red Alert." I'm sure that lists several places where money could be found. If not, perhaps we can ask Clark Kent Erwin.

Posted to Immigration2005a at January 25, 2005 10:59 AM

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