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    Guard presence along Mexican border to end this summer

    Guard presence along Mexican border to end this summer
    ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN

    TUCSON, Ariz. — A program that has rotated thousands of National Guardsmen along the Mexican border to augment U.S. Border Patrol agents comes to a close in four months, despite calls by at least one border governor to extend the Guard’s mission.

    Operation Jump Start began in mid-2006, deploying up to 6,000 troops at a time during the first 12 months in non-enforcement roles that freed up Border Patrol agents for front-line duty.

    Through January, the National Guard Bureau spent more than $1 billion on the program - nearly $212 million in the 2006 fiscal year, $687 million in fiscal 2007 and $136 million during the first four months of fiscal 2008.

    The guardsmen have built roads and fences, maintained equipment, provided aviation support and monitored cameras. They’ve also spent months at border outposts, calling in Border Patrol agents to capture illegal immigrants and drug runners they spot entering the country.

    Jump Start was designed as a stopgap to give the Border Patrol additional help while the agency ramped up its numbers.

    The Border Patrol had just under 12,000 agents when the program began, and President Bush said at the time that another 6,000 would be hired over the next two years. But the Border Patrol has hired only about half that many and now has 15,550 agents, although it says it hopes to reach the goal by the end of this calendar year.

    “We have a really aggressive recruiting campaign going on,â€
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    Re: Guard presence along Mexican border to end this summer

    Of course Bush need them in Iraq to guard their border... He sickens me. How is he not impeached for being a war crimanal and "just" the WORST President ever? He has taken this country, in 7 years, from a balanced budget and prosperous to this. Did the media look at his record in Texas before he won the Presidency?
    His Resume' below: LOOK at the criminal activity he and his possee have been involved in and Katrina isn't even mentioned. There must be more missing too.


    GEORGE W. BUSH

    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

    Washington, DC 20520

    EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

    Law Enforcement:
    I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for
    driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty,
    paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for
    30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and
    is not available.

    Military:
    I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I
    refused to take a drug test or answer any questions
    about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National
    Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

    College:
    I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.
    I was a cheerleader.

    PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

    I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.

    I began my career in the oil business in Midland Texas,
    in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find
    any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly
    after I sold all my stock.

    I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a
    sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.

    With the help of my father and our friends in the oil
    industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected
    governor of Texas.

    ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:

    I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil
    companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the
    Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles
    as the most smog-ridden city in America.

    I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the
    tune of billions in borrowed money.

    I set the record for the most executions by any
    governor in American history.

    With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida ,
    and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I
    became President of the United States, after losing by
    over 500,000 votes.

    ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

    I am the first President in U.S. history to enter
    office with a criminal record.

    I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing
    cost of over one billion dollars per week.

    I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted
    the U.S. Treasury.

    I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit
    in U.S. history.

    I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies
    filed in any 12-month period.

    I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a
    12-month period.

    I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the
    history of the U.S. stock market. In my first year in
    office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and
    that trend continues.

    I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the
    richest of any administration in U.S. history. My
    "poorest millionaire," Condoleezza Rice, has a Chevron
    oil tanker named after her.

    I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips
    by a U.S. President.

    I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for
    receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

    My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of
    my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the
    largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history,
    Enron

    My political party used Enron private jets and
    corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S.
    Supreme Court during my election decision.

    I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton
    against investigation or prosecution. More time and
    money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky
    affair than has been spent investigating one of the
    biggest corporate rip-offs in history. I presided over
    the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused
    to intervene when corruption involving the oil
    industry was revealed.

    I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S.
    history.

    I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals
    to be awarded government contracts.

    I appointed more convicted criminals to my
    administration than any President in US. history.

    I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the
    largest bureaucracy in the history of the United
    States Government.

    I've broken more international treaties than any
    President in U.S. history.

    I am the first President in U.S. history to have the
    United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights
    Commission.

    I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

    I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S.
    "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused
    to abide by the Geneva Convention.

    I am the first President in history to refuse United
    Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US
    election).

    I set the record for fewest numbers of press
    conferences of any President since the advent of
    television.

    I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in
    any one-year period. After taking off the entire month
    of August, I presided over the worst security failure
    in U.S. history.

    I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S after
    the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year
    later made the U.S. the most hated country in the
    world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world
    history.

    I have set the all-time record for most people
    worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public
    venues (15 million people), shattering the record for
    protests against any person in the history of mankind.


    I am the first President in U.S. history to order an
    unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military
    occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the
    will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S.
    Citizens and the world community.

    I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and
    support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops
    and their families in wartime.

    In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our
    reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on
    our British friends.

    I am the first President in history to have a majority
    of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest
    threat to world peace and security.

    I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical
    Bunker Buster," a WMD.

    I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring
    Osama Bin Laden to justice.

    RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

    All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now
    in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for
    public view.

    All records of SEC investigations into my insider
    trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in
    secrecy and unavailable for public view.

    All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my
    Vice-President, attended regarding public energy
    policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for
    public review. I specified that my sealed documents
    will not be available for 50 years.



    Now you know why even the Republican candidates are
    saying, " We need a change!!"
    If Palestine puts down their guns, there will be peace.
    If Israel puts down their guns there will be no more Israel.
    Dick Morris

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    Guard Presence Along Mexican Border....

    Sen. Pete Domenici (NM) has or is going to introduce S. 2716 requiring that the National Guard be maintained on the border for its original full term as a part of "Operation Jump Start". S. 2716 is one of a package of "anti-illegal immigration" bills listed to be introduced by the "Senators for Border Security and Enforcement First Caucus" newly formed by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), although Sen. Domenici is not listed as a member of the caucus.
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