As debate on the new Arizona immigration law SB 1070 rages on, the decision for immigration reform and additional border security is boiling over and can’t be pushed to the back burner. President Obama was forced to react to the sheer audacity of SB 1070; he’s asking that Congress approve a $ 600 million fund to hire more Border Patrol agents, watch with Predator drones and beef up overall border security as outlined by the Los Angeles Times. An unnamed senior White House official told the Times that Obama’s border security spending budget plan would contain 160 additional Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, plus dog units.
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Border security is vital to national defense, said Obama
President Obama’s message concerning the use of the $ 600 million in taxpayer funds was quite clear in his letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The request “responds to urgent and essential needs” and should be considered an emergency situation, he says. America’s border to the south is often stained by violence. Mexico’s drug war – which they are easily losing to the cartels – no doubt influenced the president’s $ 600 million move. It may be high time, as the drug cartels are already openly threatening U.S. authorities, says the New York Daily News. A portion of the $ 600 million will serve to assist Mexican authorities also, with the hope that it will prevent the drug war violence from fully entering America’s domain.
Mending fences, breaking inertia
In the words of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, her state is “the gateway to The United States for drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and crime”. And that’s one of the a lot more subtle cues Brewer has given concerning her outrage over the federal government’s relative inactivity over border security. Predator drones, top personnel and the kind of fences that actually do the job are what Arizona needs, attests Brewer. Enforcing Arizona immigration law SB 1070 will not create a “Papers, please!” military state, but will really have a optimistic effect on border security, as outlined by Brewer. Even a Mexican lawsuit against SB 1070 (as CNN reports) won’t stop the move toward tighter border security in America. Violence in border states, whether it be because of a drug war or illegal immigration and slave trade, will not co! ntinue in a country that takes border security seriously.
More data on this topic
Los Angeles Times
latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-border-patrol-20100623,,4691128.story
New York Daily News
nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/22/2010-06-22_mexican_drug_cartel_threatens_to_harm_us_police_officers_who_bust_drug_shipments.html
CNN
ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/23/mexico-files-court-brief-against-arizona-immigration-law/
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