April 22, 2005

650+ new Border Patrol agents

...Byrd teamed with Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, on an amendment that would add 650 new agents to the Border Patrol. The legislation easily passed the Senate, 64-35, on Wednesday .

Arizona's GOP senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, split their votes. McCain voted against it; Kyl supported it.

Under the Byrd-Craig amendment, the Homeland Security Department may spend $390 million this year to hire 650 additional Border Patrol agents, 250 new immigration investigators and 168 new immigration enforcement agents and deportation officers.

Posted to Immigration2005a at April 22, 2005 12:57 AM

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