[FairOpinion]

"The Border Patrol, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, has 9,800 agents stationed along the border, up from 3,600 a decade ago."

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Obviously it's still not enough, but it's quite an improvement -- Bush almost tripled the border patrol agents. Obviously it's still not enough -- but I read that in his 2005 budget he was adding more funding and more agents.

[janetgreen]

As long as our government continues to force American taxpayers to pay for the support of illegal aliens and refuses to enforce immigration laws, the invasion will continue.

[AzJohn]

Bush almost tripled the border patrol agents.

That's not clear from the article. The next sentence after the one you cited is:

That includes 1,300 agents hired since 2000, reflecting a new emphasis on tracking border crossings.

So all we really know is out of a total increase of 6,200, 1,300 were hired in the last 3 years. The rest of the increase could have been hired under the previous administration, or perhaps they were transferred to the southern border under this or the previous administration.