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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Terry Jeffrey :: Townhall.com Columnist
U.S. Won't Secure a Single Additional Mile of Border in 2010
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to move several hundred Border Patrol agents away from the U.S.-Mexico border and will not secure a single additional mile of the U.S. border in fiscal 2010, according to the department's annual performance report.

The document -- "Department of Homeland Security Annual Performance Report: Fiscal Years 2008-2010" -- was originally published by the Bush administration on Jan. 15 and was updated by the Obama administration on May 7.

Excluding the border between Alaska and Canada, the combined length of the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada is about 6,000 miles (with almost 2,000 miles along the Mexican frontier and 4,000 along the Canadian).

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The DHS annual performance report lists as the department's top goal: "Protect our nation from dangerous people." Under this goal, it lists as one program: "Border security and control between ports of entry." The goal of this program is: "Prevent potential terrorists, means of terrorism or other unlawful activities from entering the U.S. along our land borders by gaining operational control in areas deemed as high priority for terrorist threat potential or other national security objectives."

One measure of this is goal is titled: "Border miles under effective control (including certain coastal areas)."

Until this year, the department showed steady progress in this metric.

In fiscal 2005, for example, it had a goal of putting 150 miles of border "under effective control," and it achieved 288 miles. In fiscal 2008, it had a goal of putting 674 miles of border "under effective control," and it achieved 757 miles.

But this year, the progress stalled.

In fiscal 2009, according to page 24 of the report, the department's goal is to have 815 miles of border "under effective control." In fiscal 2010, it says, the goal is also to have 815 miles of border "under effective control." Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Sep 19, 2009 - 3:49 PM EST
Interior blocking border security?
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Reply # 2
Date: Sep 10, 2009 - 9:55 AM EST
worth a reprise

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Reply # 43
Date: Sep 9, 2009 - 10:12 AM EST
White Conservative Voters Are Key!
FeargalX:

Good comments. I'm a former Californian so I'm intimately familiar with this issue.

I would recommend that you and everyone else read Pat Buchanan's excellent analysis of the overstated power of the Hispanic vote. He pretty effectively explodes some myths on this.

Go to: http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/07/14/how_ to_handle_sonia

Rather than following the lead of phony little RINOs like Timmy Pawlenty who wants to "broaden" the Republican Party by, basically, sending out truckloads of absentee ballots to Mexico, the Republican Party should be concentrating on winning over/back white conservatives such as myself who left the Republican Party years ago over its betrayal of conservatives on illegal immigration.

Why? Because we outnumber Hispanic VOTERS by a wide margin.

Read Buchanan's article.

And...you are correct that the Republicans are owned by big business; otherwise EMPLOYER SANCTIONS involving huge fines against employers would have solved this problem years ago by forcing illegals home for lack of work.

Go to: http://rohrabacher.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?Docu mentID=65918 for conservative Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher's excellent House floor speech on that. Search down for "big business" wherein he talks about the hold big business has on the GOP.
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