[Verloona Ti]

The 'Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act' authorized 10,000 new border agents, 40,000 additional detention beds, and 4,000 new immigration enforcement agents yet all three were funded well below 50% of authorization. In fact, the Bush administration attempted to provide a mere 210 new border agents for FY 2006 yet was eventually forced to fund 700 new agents for both FY 2006 and 2007.

On some "angry over amnesty" threads, I've seen GWB's "hiring of 10,000 additional border agents" presented as proof that he is too serious about enforcement, and how dare you doubt him.

[AuntB]

March 2007

MERIDA, Mexico - President Bush, working to rebuild strained U.S.-Mexico relations, promised Tuesday he would do his best to get a deeply divided U.S. Congress to change American immigration policies that are hated south of the border.

“My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I’ll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” Bush said during a sun-splashed arrival ceremony that opened two days of meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in this Yucatan Peninsula tourist haven.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory? id=2947200