Border Security
Sending the National Guard troops to the border will require a diversion $1.9 billion of funds, which the Senate had previously approved for border security. National Guard troops will not be empowered to arrest, apprehend, or find illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol needs more agents on the ground to arrest illegal immigrants and smugglers coming across the border.
Bush claims the borders can be secured with technology, but technology has already proven completely ineffective in securing our borders. A report by the Government Accountability Office issued in February found numerous failings. The sensors frequently give false readings and of 11,000 motion sensors deployed in August of last year, 1,000 had quit working three months later.
More than $340 million has been spent on border surveillance technology. Only 255 remote cameras are installed, covering only four percent for our borders. The biggest failure of technology is that a camera doesn't make arrests. Money is spent on lucrative corporate contracts, while additional border agents have not to be hired or trained to make the required arrests. The funds for those jobs has been appropriated by Congress, but Homeland Security has neglected to fill them. Instead, the Bush regime has been asking defense contractors how billions of dollars should be spent.
A hidden consequence of illegal immigration is the free flow of diseases across borders. People seeking legal residency undergo routine physicals to screen out dangerous diseases. As many as 8,000 illegal immigrants stream across our borders each day, and many of them have diseases, which are making a comeback in the United States. In counties that border Mexico, TB rates are twice as high as the rest of the country.
Furthermore, immigration courts are overburdened, and backlogged for years. Presently, there are only 214 immigration court judges in the entire country, with responsible for adjudicating all immigration cases. Last year, the number of cases rose by 31 percent to a total of 368,848. That comes out to 1,723 cases per judge, but does not count the backlog from previous years. Neither the Congressional Republicans, nor the Bush regime have begun to addressed these particular problems.
Bush claims the borders can be secured with technology, but technology has already proven completely ineffective in securing our borders. A report by the Government Accountability Office issued in February found numerous failings. The sensors frequently give false readings and of 11,000 motion sensors deployed in August of last year, 1,000 had quit working three months later.
More than $340 million has been spent on border surveillance technology. Only 255 remote cameras are installed, covering only four percent for our borders. The biggest failure of technology is that a camera doesn't make arrests. Money is spent on lucrative corporate contracts, while additional border agents have not to be hired or trained to make the required arrests. The funds for those jobs has been appropriated by Congress, but Homeland Security has neglected to fill them. Instead, the Bush regime has been asking defense contractors how billions of dollars should be spent.
A hidden consequence of illegal immigration is the free flow of diseases across borders. People seeking legal residency undergo routine physicals to screen out dangerous diseases. As many as 8,000 illegal immigrants stream across our borders each day, and many of them have diseases, which are making a comeback in the United States. In counties that border Mexico, TB rates are twice as high as the rest of the country.
Furthermore, immigration courts are overburdened, and backlogged for years. Presently, there are only 214 immigration court judges in the entire country, with responsible for adjudicating all immigration cases. Last year, the number of cases rose by 31 percent to a total of 368,848. That comes out to 1,723 cases per judge, but does not count the backlog from previous years. Neither the Congressional Republicans, nor the Bush regime have begun to addressed these particular problems.
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