Thread: Border Patrol is a boost for struggling towns

Border Patrol is a boost for struggling towns

By Elliot Spagat
ASSOCIATED PRESS

10:58 a.m. September 26, 2008

EL CENTRO – The U.S. Border Patrol's gleaming new regional headquarters building is just one sign of how the fast-growing agency is boosting the local economy.
Agents frequent the restaurants and gyms. A new indoor shooting range relies on Border Patrol employees. And dry cleaners do brisk business pressing green uniforms.

The Border Patrol's growth to more than 17,000 agents – from 12,000 two years ago and nearly double from eight years ago – has been a boon to towns and small cities along the 1,952-mile border with Mexico, many plagued by poverty and high unemployment.
“The Border Patrol had a very noticeable presence two or three years ago. Now it's overwhelming,â€

I just wish that I could demand that my tax dollars go to support the CBP instead of building some weapons so we can go and attack all those countries that look at us the wrong way.

How ironic.......not very long ago, these very same business owners were, undoubtedly, among the rest screaming and yelling about BP being the cause of their lost revenues, inability to hire, etc. They were all the bad guys making life miserable for the "poor IAs" and those who rely on them,

Now, they are making these people oodles and the BP is just fine with them.

Freaking hypocrites.........