House Republicans Trim Border Security Budget, Despite Calls for More Resources

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Democrats Accuse GOP of Hypocrisy Over Budget Cuts, 'Secure the Border' Claims

When it comes to border security, House Republicans have been outspoken and unambiguous.

They say more resources are needed to stop illegal flows of immigrants, drugs and weapons entering the U.S., and insist the Obama administration has not acted aggressively enough to bolster border security.

"The President's budget proves once again that the Obama administration is not serious about enforcing our nation's immigration laws," said Texas Rep. Lamar Smith earlier this month. "By underfunding key national security programs, we leave ourselves vulnerable to future terrorist attacks."

But even as GOP lawmakers demand tighter border enforcement as a prerequisite for comprehensive immigration reform legislation, Republicans in the House have approved a 2012 budget that seems to undermine that goal.

The House voted mostly along party lines over the weekend to slash spending by an estimated $600 million for border security and immigration enforcement for the remainder of this fiscal year.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-republicans-trim-border-security-budget-calls-resources/story?id=12965031

[ananda]

1. hmm

The baggers won't like this.

[RC]

2. Want to stop the Mexicans from coming across?

Take away their reason for coming here. Jobs. Arrest and convict those people who hire them. Deal out Prison terms. Fines don't do anything, it's a cost of doing business.


How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

Legalize the more benign drugs, i.e., marijuana, etc. Treat them like alcohol.

Why isn't common sense not so common?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

3. Weapons entering the U.S? I thought they were being exported. n/t

On the gun topic... how come a small dealer buy and sell AK-47 to Mexico but a U.S. citizen can't buy one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/26borders.html

PHOENIX — The Mexican agents who moved in on a safe house full of drug dealers last May were not prepared for the fire power that greeted them.

When the shooting was over, eight agents were dead. Among the guns the police recovered was an assault rifle traced back across the border to a dingy gun store here called X-Caliber Guns.

Now, the owner, George Iknadosian, will go on trial on charges he sold hundreds of weapons, mostly AK-47 rifles, to smugglers, knowing they would send them to a drug cartel in the western state of Sinaloa. The guns helped fuel the gang warfare in which more than 6,000 Mexicans died last year.

Sorry if I hijacked this thread.