Whee! Obama signs $600M border security bill into law

[Bluebear]

More agents! Unmanned drones! Must be part of the immigration reform that he promised during his first year in office. And of course, for all that, the Republicans STILL aren't happy.

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million border security that will put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border.

Obama signed the bill in the Oval Office alongside Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The measure will fund the hiring of 1,000 new Border Patrol agents to be deployed at critical areas along the border, as well as more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. It also provides for new communications equipment and greater use of unmanned surveillance drones.

Some Republicans, including Arizona Sen. John McCain, say that while the legislation is a start, it falls short by not dramatically increasing the number of customs inspectors along the border and not funding a program that charges illegal immigrants with a low-level crime.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100813/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_border_security

[Bluebear]

1. update photo

[lib2DaBone]

2. No matter how much Republican Ass you kiss.. it will never be enough...

Mr. Obama, you have it backwards. You should be kissing the Professional Left.. the ones who brought you to the dance.

[Bluebear]

3. Nah, we are all due for drug-testing. We're crazy.

[BlackHoleSon]

4. Oh Great!!!

Maybe we can have drug ... er I mean Border checkpoints all the way up to Albuquerque now !

[Bluebear]

5. Welcome to DU, son!

[bigwillq]

10. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Festung (fortress) Amerika!

[Ignis]

7. Phew! What a relief!

Some of us are worried about jobs, or wars, or social security, or civil rights for all Americans.

Thank GAWD someone's got an eye on the keeping the Scary Hungry Mexicans out! :patriot:

[Bluebear]

9. I feel SO much safer with those million dollar drones buzzing around.

[Ignis]

11. Well, we can't use them ONLY to spy on brown people in the Middle East!

That would be racist, y'know!

[Bluebear]

14. My bad.

I must need drug testing. :silly:

[Ignis]

16. We're going in for a group rate:

[Bluebear]

18. !

[derby378]

8. Too little, too late, wrong focus

I wish he'd start taking the "violence houses" in Phoenix very seriously - torture in America, coyote-style:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-08-12/news/seized-inside-the-brutal-world-of-america-s-kidnapping-capital/1/

[another saigon]

12. I feel so much safer now!

:puke:

[Bluebear]

13. Hope!

[another saigon]

17. Change!

NOT

:grr:

[RagAss]

15. Freedom is on the March.