Administration Will Cut Border Patrol Deployed on U.S-Mexico Border

[Sol Invictus]

Terence P. Jeffrey
CNSNews
September 25, 2009

Even though the Border Patrol now reports that almost 1,300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is not under effective control, and the Department of Justice says that vast stretches of the border are “easily breached,” and the Government Accountability Office has revealed that three persons “linked to terrorism” and 530 aliens from “special interest countries” were intercepted at Border Patrol checkpoints last year, the administration is nonetheless now planning to decrease the number of Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Border Patrol Director of Media Relations Lloyd Easterling confirmed this week–as I first reported in my column yesterday–that his agency is planning for a net decrease of 384 agents on the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2010, which begins on October 1.

A Department of Homeland Security annual performance review updated by the Obama administration on May 7 said the Border Patrol “plans to move several hundred Agents from the Southwest Border to the Northern Border to meet the FY 2010 staffing requirements, with only a small increase in new agents for the Southwest Border in the same year.”

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[Birka]

This absolutely sucks. He wants to give amnesty to millions of illegals now (maybe over 20 million) and leave the border open for millions more.

[Psychonaut]

This has less to do with anyone wanting to cut borer security and much more to do with the fact that the CBP has the highest turn over rate for employees of any federal agency, particularly on the Northern border. Remember, it's not the Canadians that we're worried about sneaking over up there, but all of the potential terrorists that Canada has allowed into their country through it's lax immigration policies. There are minimum staffing requirements that are simply not being met up there because more than half of the people who start doing the job quit soon after.