Border Patrol Agents Securing Borders...In Iraq
Posted by Stephanie Taylor on May 30, 2007 at 04:10 PM
Apparently the Bush administration supports border security...but for Iraq.
The public learned this week that the defense contractor DynCorp has been authorized by the Bush administration to hire as many as 120 "current and former U.S. Border Patrol agents" to train Iraqis in border security.
Agents are being tempted by DynCorp's offer of $134,000 for one year in Iraq, plus a $25,000 signing bonus, free housing and free food. Agents in the U.S. with at least two years’ experience currently earn about $55,000 a year.
The Bush administration also plans to reduce by half the 6,000 National Guard troops currently posted at the Arizona-Mexico border. The administration promised to replace the troops with "an equal number of new Border Patrol agents," but fewer than 350 new agents have been hired so far.
Governor Janet Napolitano (D-AZ) said in a letter to Bush last week:
"At a time when violence is once again flaring up on our own border, it makes no sense for the United States State Department to empower a company to hire away as many as 120 veteran Border Patrol agents to serve as mentors to train Iraqis...We should be focused on supporting our nation’s security efforts along the Mexican and Canadian border instead of hampering [the Border Patrol] by sending our best agents to a war zone in Iraq."
The administration has also cut Arizona’s Homeland Security funding by 60 percent from $60 million in 2003 to $20 million last year.
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This is just an other example of the arrogant, vengeful "screw you" attitude of the Bush administration. She's a Democratic Governor, so she gets the shaft and so do the citizens of her state. Don't get mad, get even! the elections are coming!.....John Boy....
Posted by goodfoe on May 30, 2007 at 04:43 PM
DynaCorp is just another of the no-bid contractors, who've done so much to prolong the war, murder Iraqis, short our kids on maintenance of equipment, needed supplies, edible food and potable water, and pocket taxpayer money while thumbing their noses at the rest of us.
INVESTIGATE! IMPEACH!! INDICT!!!
Posted by Butte on May 30, 2007 at 05:49 PM
They might do better to hire some of the Mexican smugglers and drug dealers to train the Iraqis. They have over 30 years experience since Reagan gave them the green light to control our borders.
Posted by SandyH on May 30, 2007 at 11:43 PM
This story doesnt surprise me Bush and his henchmen need slave labor for their corporate pals. If we are training Iraqis in border security then that country really is doomed.
Posted by AzraelsJudgement on May 31, 2007 at 09:40 AM
Over the past 6 years of "George's reign", I have donated to Howard Dean, the Democratic Congressional Committee and various Democratic candidates, including Hillary. Because of the Party's current stand on illegal immigration, I will not donate one more penny to the Party. Furthermore, unless the Party changes direction and takes a stand on keeping this country as the United States of America instead of the United States of Mexico, I will vote for any and all Republicans who take a stand against illegal immigration.
Posted by goodoldmary on June 4, 2007 at 04:35 PM
I cannot stand George Bush and what he has done. I cannot stand Senator Kennedy and what he wants to do with his immigration bill. He wants to reward lawbreakers. He wants to prevent people who have used stolen identites from being deported. He wants us to become a bi-lingual culture with Spanish being our second (or first) official language. He wants open borders with no control over who enters or who remains in this country.
Our government has failed in 1965 and again in 1986 to solve the illegal immigration problem with empty promises and complete failures to enforce the laws on the books.
This fat rich old man Kennedy would sing a different tune if an illegal could competete against him for a job or run a well financed campaign for his senate seat.
Anybody that opposes the kind of immigration reform being proposed by the Democrats in the Senate and House will get my vote.
As much as I dislike Republicans I will not vote for any presidential candidate that supports any kind of comprehensive immigration reform like what Kennedy, Spector, and McCain et al tried to ram down our throats.
Posted by liberalsocialist on June 9, 2007 at 02:09 PM
I find it frustrating that those who run this forum NEVER EVER have a blog that accepts commentary about this amnesty bill.
This bill will cost us our country because we will be unable to pay the social costs including social security for these 10s of millions of low skilled, low paid workers. They will load our schools our hospitals and depress our wages, all to give George Bush's "HAVES" more.
I have told my Democratic Senator that I will not vote for him if he votes for this, which is a vote to sell our country down the river.
Posted by Robson on June 10, 2007 at 11:46 PM
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