Border fence installed in Calexico, CA
Proposals in Barack Obama’s new budget show cuts to programs that ensure the safety of America’s borders, including maritime patrols of coastal cities such as New York, the scene of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Five of the Coast Guard’s 13 elite Maritime Security and Safety Teams (MSST), created since 2001 to protect waterfront cities, would be eliminated in the Obama budget. This would affect New York City, San Francisco, Anchorage and King’s Bay, Ga, as well as other coastal towns.
Other reductions include:
- The Border Patrol, which doubled to 20,000 agents during the Bush administration, would lose 180 agents through attrition. Border staffing would stay the same.
- A “virtual” fence of pole cameras and sensors aimed at stopping illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and terrorists on the U.S.-Mexican border, faces a $225 million cut from $800 million last year. That would delay implementation while a review of the fence, plagued by technical problems, is done.
- The existing 643 miles of concrete-and-steel border fence would be maintained but no new barriers would be built.
Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., the top Republican on the House panel overseeing the Department of Homeland Security’s budget, says the border security funding in President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2011 is “woefully inadequate” and “as dangerous as it is indefensible.”
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says her department’s $56.3 billion budget for next year, up 2% over this year, enhances security “across the board.” Department spokesman Bobby Whithorne says the budget “continues to support smart, effective programs to strengthen border and interior security” while making “significant investments in aviation security.”
In the wake of the failed attempt to blow up an airplane bound for Detroit on Dec. 25, Obama’s budget for next year calls for $371 million for 500 more body scanners, 275 more canine teams and an unspecified number of new air marshals.
Former Homeland Security department policy chief Stewart Baker says in paying for more aviation security, the White House “has decided that some of the border defenses are more expendable. … We’re taking some risks there.”
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Lookit? I've said it before and I will say it again..he is doing this-destroying our country from the inside OUT–making it easy for Islam to come in here–get paid for it through government programs–and attack and kill as many of us as they can. Start from one thread and it is woven all the way through into a tapestry of God-LESSNESS and debauchery. Obama may not be(?) THE antichrist–BUT HE SURE AS HECK IS ONE. Thing is about this though…no way do i think Ole Barry Hussein is anywhere NEAR intelligent enough to pull this off..there are people behind the scenes..mark my words-just in case you are here when we are "gone" This so-called administration is EVIL -Period.
Well, if Obummer keeps doing what he’s doing, no one is going to want to come here anyway. No one will be left to contribute since everyone will be out of work while the amount of needy welfare cases grows. Without the support of the middle class, this country is broke. The rich will escape leaving nothing but a giant batch of dependents with no one to pay the bills. Who’s going to want to come here when the entire country is living in tent cities with no supplies, robbing from each other out of desperation while Big Brother sits atop the pedestal watching and laughing. This goes way beyond conspiracy theory and Bilderberg and the rest, this is actually happening now. Potential illegal immigrants will be better off staying where they are by the time this idiot is done.