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President Bush's prime-time speech was designed to divert attention away from the fact that his own budget has prevented enough border patrol agents to be deployed.

The National Intelligence Reform Act, signed Dec. 17th 2004, included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents. Bush's 2006 budget only allocated enough money for 210 of them. Yet there was enough money to give tax breaks to the rich and the corporations who hire illegals.

There you have it. The President's true priorities, in black and white.

Sending our already-strained National Guard to the border is designed to put on a show for the TV news cameras. Think of the visuals. The President can go down and meet with the new recruits.

But while Bush is busy staging photo-ops on the border, thousands of uninspected cargo containers enter our ports every day. They could be full of immigrants, drugs, or nukes.

William Stosine
Iowa City, IA


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