News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Bush wants to put more money into training that has yet to catch on locally

By Leslie Berestein and Tony Manolatos
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS

May 17, 2006

A bigger National Guard presence at the border generated the most buzz, but President Bush briefly mentioned another controversial idea in Monday's address: expanding the level of cooperation between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement.

The president was referring to existing voluntary programs used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. The administration wants to boost spending to $50 million from $5.5 million for a program that trains local and state officers and authorizes them to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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