Word: patrollers
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...millions of illegal aliens who enter the country through the southern border every year, hundreds of thousands are caught and detained by immigration and customs officials. That's a lot of mouths to feed. In fiscal year 2005, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) alone spent $2.6 million on food for detainees along the southern border. This year, with $1.7 million already spent since Oct. 1, the CBP is on track to double that amount. The figures are line items in CBP's budget and the total dollar amount spent on food is likely much higher, says a CBP official, since...
What worries him now is the waiver he needs to get into the Army with a prosthetic leg. Failing that, he might return to Texas, learn some Spanish and try for a border-patrol job. There is no girlfriend in his life. "With this chubby Irish mug?" he asks, noting the 20 lbs. he has put on since his accident. But the ladies do take notice, he admits. "I tell girls I got blown up by an antitank mine in Iraq. It's cheesy, but it works." And he really has drunk out of his prosthetic leg--although...
...spokesman for Gov. Perry said, while acknowledging that it is not clear the uniformed men were members of the Mexican Army. Lately Perry has been sounding alarms about the border situation, directing significant state funds to Operation Linebacker, a program developed by the Texas Sheriffs Border Coalition to increase patrols and engage the local community in their efforts. The U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza, once the mayor of a Texas border town, said the Hudspeth County incident shows once again the Mexican government cannot police the border region. "It serves to bolster the arguments of those who seek...
...York City's J.F.K. Airport. But whether they travel by land or by air, relatively few get caught or even delayed. Their safety comes in numbers: hundreds of thousands of migrants will always win a game of Red Rover with a little more than 11,000 border-patrol agents...
They are taking seriously the bipartisan calls from states to be reimbursed for the tens of millions of dollars in emergency funds states have set aside to cover the gaps in Part D coverage. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt spent last week on damage-control patrol, trying to placate anxious seniors and state lawmakers angry about footing the bill for Medicare's mistakes. Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe said Leavitt reassured her on Friday that the Federal Government would use its authority to compel insurance plans to reimburse the states directly. Maine has spent $5 million...