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July 28, 2006
Glowing picture painted on border security
By Jack E. Wilkinson

The Bush administration has made a glowing report on its alien program along the southern U.S. border.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a House of Representatives appropriations panel that the government will gain operational control of the border by 2008, two years earlier than expected, The Washington Times reported.

He said the catch-and-release program has been almost completely ended in the past few weeks and the government has nearly tripled the number of criminal arrests of employers hiring illegal aliens, the Times' report said.

The enforcement numbers are aimed at convincing Congress that U.S. President George Bush is making progress on border security as he seeks to pass a broader immigration bill.


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