Reply #106: Bush budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents

[Zorra]

Washington -- 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.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/09/MNGOKB837T1.DTL

Buh is not the least bit interested in our national security. I have been following this issue since the 9/11 attack. Since 9/11 the Border Patrol has been repeatedly begging Buh for money for more manpower and equipment so that they could do an adequate job of preventing undetected entries into our country, including terrorists that could waltz right across the border. Buh just keeps refusing to help the Border Patrol.

Then again, maybe Buh has new plans and needs another terrorist attack to happen soon and scare the American people into submission again.