Thread: Obama Has Halved Spending on Border

Obama Has Halved Spending on Border Fencing, Infrastructure, Technology--Leaving 1,300 Miles of Mexico Border Unfenced
By Edwin Mora
November 28, 2011
A vehicle fence in the El Paso sector of the Southwest Border. (Photo: CBP/Paul Wells)
(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration has slashed spending on border fencing, infrastructure and technology, cutting it by more than half since it peaked under President George W. Bush in fiscal 2008, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

In 2008, according to GAO, the federal government spent more than $1.3 billion on border security fencing, infrastructure and technology. In 2011, it spend $573 million.
Meanwhile, Customs and Border Protection has said that as of June it had fenced only 649 miles of the nearly 1,954-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border--leaving more than 1,300 miles of that border unfenced.

The November 2011 GAO report refers to this category of federal spending by the acronym BSFIT.

“Over $4.7 billion has been appropriated for BSFIT activities from fiscal years 2007 through 2011,â€

Leader of, and thief of thieves. I thought only congress could defund what they passed as law.. Oh right.."the transformation of America".
Dictator, Thief, and Puppet for the Destruction of America.