FAST FACT: THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE RACE (La Raza) to get $3.4 million in taxpayer grants in the Obama budget – Border Patrol and border security budget cut
“…Another $3.4 million grant is to go to the National Council of La Raza in Chicago. ”
If Congress approves Obama’s proposals:
– The Border Patrol, which doubled to 20,000 agents during the Bush administration, would lose 180 agents through attrition. Border staffing would stay the same.
– A “virtual” fence of pole cameras and sensors aimed at stopping illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and terrorists on the U.S.-Mexican border, faces a $225 million cut from $800 million last year. That would delay implementation while a review of the fence, plagued by technical problems, is done.
– Five of the Coast Guard’s 13 elite Maritime Security and Safety Teams, created since 2001 to protect waterfront cities, would be eliminated. Obama is proposing cuts in New York City; San Francisco; Anchorage, Alaska; and King’s Bay, Ga.