September 01, 2005

Bush making the Border Patrol even less effective because of Katrina

The Bush administration has ordered the Border Patrol to move some personnel and equipment from the border to deal with Katrina, NewsMax reports:

...According to [the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency], however, plenty of its scarce resources are now committed to rescue and law enforcement support in the multi-state areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Its fixed wing aircraft are used for transportation and for surveillance/reconnaissance efforts to identify anyone in peril. CBP helicopters are also used in transport and in search and rescue efforts.

The air support efforts are being coordinated through an airborne command center, which includes airborne radar and traffic management capabilities. Marine support is also providing transportation and rescue assistance. And CBP is sending over one hundred Border Patrol agents to provide law enforcement support to the impacted area. As CBP pointed out to NewsMax, its relief teams in the New Orleans area are not by any means gratuitous. The proliferation of ports of entry in the area means that the agency has a large number of CBP personnel regularly on the ground. Many of these CBP personnel were hit by the storm and are in need of relief...

While Katrina was obviously not an attack, perhaps this article might shed a tiny little bit of light on why this is a very bad idea.

Posted to Immigration_terror at September 1, 2005 02:49 PM

Comments

both the left and right are doing little or nothing, bush is not what you think he is and the left are not real people but only out for the good thing of life with your money, the rights wants open borders and the great ideals of the one world and all i want is a really big bomb.

all you see is a lie and all you hear is political propaganda and the fact is we don't live in any kind of nation state but a want-to-be-one-world-nut house.

was tim right to take action against the population? and is bush right? and do you understand this non nation and its total collapse of right and wrong.

is bush a muslim? and why is he so pro-communists china? and why is he so in love with mexico? and why is bush helping the new islamic republic Iraq? and why don't you think it isn't all fact? some day i will be shot by some third world cop inside this dead republic killed by madness, after all any who talk out against evil will always be killed by that evil.

Posted by: Fred Dawes at September 1, 2005 03:50 PM