HOUSES PASSES BORDER SECURITY FUNDING BILL... Big Deal!

NEARLY ONE-FOURTH OF THE HOUSE ARE MEMBERS OF THE HISPANIC CAUCUS, i.e., LA RAZA!

FOR A DECADE WE'VE SQUANDERED AMERICA LIVES, AND A TRILLION DOLLARS IN BUSH'S WAR TO PROTECT BIG BUSH SAUDI - CARLYLE GROUP - HALLIBURTON INTERESTS AGAINST SADDAM!

DURING THAT DECADES PROBABLY A ANOTHER TEN MILLION ILLEGALS WALKED OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS!

VIVA LA RECONQUISTA!




House Passes Border Security Funding Bill
Approximately 24 hours before Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law was scheduled to take effect, the House passed a supplemental spending bill which would appropriate an additional $701 million for increased border security measures along the southern border. (H.R. 5875). The bill was passed by a voice vote after being fast tracked through the House by motions to suspend normal rules of floor debate and amendments. This bill appropriates more funding for Border and Customs Protection Officers, Border Patrol agents, operation bases and fencing infrastructure, and expanded activities and operations of ICE and the Department of Justice along the southern border including:

$208.4 million for 1,200 additional Border Patrol agents to be deployed between ports of entry along the Southwest border;
$201 million for Justice Department programs and the temporary deployment of personnel to high-crime areas;
$136 million to add 500 additional officers at ports of entry along the Southwest Border and deploy additional canine teams;
$50 million for Operation Stonegarden grants to support local law enforcement activities on the border;
$35.5 million for improved tactical communications on the Southwest border, three permanent Border Patrol forward operating bases and a surge in investigations designed to prevent corruption among CBP officers and agent;
$32 million to procure two additional CBP unmanned aerial detection systems; and
$30 million to hire additional Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
The House had previously included these border appropriations in the FY 2010 Supplemental Appropriations Act, but they were stripped out of the final version in the Senate. A spokesman for Senator John McCain clarified that he supports the funding for border security but believes it must be paid for.

H.R. 5875 now travels to the Senate, but it is unclear whether Democratic Leadership will take it up during the one week that remains before the Senate leaves for August recess. Congressman Hal Rogers, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, is planning to offer a border security package to the FY2011 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill that is fully offset with spending cuts. (Congress Daily, July 29, 2010)