Posted on 03/02/2005 8:06:40 PM PST by Mike10542
Any freepers have updates on the following immigration issues:
1) Any luck with the House or Senate reorganizing the budget to include more than 210 new border agents. I know Sensenbrenner said they would try to do so.
2) What's the update of the Read ID act. Will it be a add on to the Iraq and Afghanistan emergency funding and what is the chance of the Senate passing it as such?
At a morning(Wednesday March 2, 2005 11:31 PM) Senate Appropriations hearing, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., focused on plans to hire 210 border patrol agents next year - far fewer than the 2,000 required in intelligence reform legislation enacted in December.
``I'm not happy,'' Leahy told Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Robert C. Bonner. ``Certainly we're not getting anywhere near what Congress mandated.''
Homeland Security to Hold Internal Review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4837280,00.html
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