Senate Dems push border security bill

August 5th, 2010, 12:25 pm
Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief

With just hours to go before the U.S. Senate leaves for a five-week August recess, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York is leading a group of Democratic senators to push for a vote on a $600 million border security measure that includes unmanned aerial drones and 1,500 new enforcement agents.

The bill is $100 million less than a similar bill the House passed last week and that Senate Republicans tried to get passed a month ago.

Schumer, who chairs the Senate’s immigration subcommittee, said his measure has a major difference with the House bill: â€