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WASHINGTON – According to a U.S. Border Patrol report, illegal immigration in 2008 was at its lowest level since the 1970s.

Yet, even with the decrease, an estimated 500,000 people entered the United States illegally last year. Late last night (June 24th), the U.S. House approved funds for 2010 to strengthen security along the U.S.-Mexico border and further reduce illegal immigration, as well as drug smuggling and violence along the border.

“The border situation directly affects Tennessee communities – our state has a major drug problem, especially with meth, and much of it comes from Mexico,” said Congressman Bart Gordon, who strongly supported passage of the border security bill. “More needs to be done to secure our border. The extra funding included in this bill will increase the number of border agents and support initiatives that have proven to be effective in reducing drug trafficking.”

The House-passed bill, the Homeland Security Appropriations Act for FY 2010, included funds to increase the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents from 18,000 to more than 20,000. In 2004, there were only 9,000 agents when an estimated 800,000 people entered our country illegally.

“Last year, our border agents seized more than 2.9 million pounds of drugs, which is no small feat,” added Gordon. “Still, according to a February report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Mexico plays an increasingly dominant role in the importation and distribution of illegal drugs within Tennessee.”

The bill increases funding for the Southwest Border Initiative, a collaborative effort among the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, State, and Justice to cut off resources of Mexican drug cartels.

The Southwest Border Initiative has been especially successful at disrupting some of the largest Mexican drug smuggling organizations, rendering them unable to conduct business in the U.S.

The Homeland Security Appropriations bill also includes funds for border fencing, as well as mobile and remote video surveillance technologies to secure the border and combat drug trafficking. The Senate is currently working on a similar version of the Homeland Security funding bill and is expected to pass their bill in the next few weeks.
 
 
 
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Member Opinions:
By: Brittanicus on 6/25/09
Not identifying E-Verify as the perfect tool to extract illegal immigrants from the workplace, doesn't wash with the American worker anymore? The once great US Chamber of Commerce, compliant with the ACLU, and other anti-sovereignty factions, have pushed our soft politicians to null E-Verify. Sen. Harry Reid(D-NV), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have lost a great deal of public loyalty, because between them, they manufactured excuses to undermine any new law that enforced our weak immigration laws? Chief of Homeland Security is Napolitano who joined the other pathetic Senators, to stealthily direct ICE not to implement large immigration raids anymore. This has also been noticed by the public audience in the months since inheriting the office from Chertoff. By no means are these the legislators who are stating they are supporting E-Verify, or any other immigration law, but in actual fact voting against it.

Their attitude shows up distinctly when they keep voting E-Verify being delayed for Federal contractors who of all people should be using it. It displays their complete apathetic when politicians allow 300.000 illegal workers, making use of Stimulus money in the construction industry. The 1986 Immigration Act has never been enforced, it has always been fully jeopardized and now the politicians want to replace it, by enacting another AMNESTY. Amendments to the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill is all that's required to add strength, to our border security and internal enforcement.

Even any new health care for the American people is compromised by the illegal alien pestilence, because a great portion of the uninsured in our nation are these people heading in large numbers to emergency hospitals. In the decades since Europe saw the ingress of illegal immigrants into their countries, they have seen medical care sink in the quality of service, including rationing. Here in America health care has also been disparaged by added forced mandated laws, that illegal people must be attended to, for even the common cold--which becomes yet another financial impediment to the legal population. It's just sheer madness on the part of the open border globalists, to keep feeding the country with millions of cheap labor. The burden for these services has never been financially appropriated from the businesses that employ foreign labor, but--ALWAYS--from the US taxpayer.

We have been brain-washed by the media and government that there are only 11 million illegal people who have violated our laws, whoever this is far from the truth. We can not afford for another AMNESTY to succeed, and must fight back tooth and nail? It's enactment would terrify the most conservative of financial analysts, of even larger obligation on every taxpayer. Of all the immigration tools at our disposal, we must not let our government exempt E-Verify from our ordinance. It should mandated in every human resources office that--ALL ERRORS-- can be reconciled, after being hired at the Social Security agencies.

President Obama has adamantly promised illegal aliens who knew the consequences of violating our border, a path to citizenship. Sorry! But the costs of this travesty cannot be even imagined. This is absolutely "Taxation without Representation" for like many laws that quietly fall upon the American taxpayer it is ethically wrong. Just addressing the OVERPOPULATION concept should be enough for--THE PEOPLE--to bombard your Senators and Congressman. Facts, statistics at NUMBERSUSA.

By: Momma on 6/25/09
Thanks, Bart! I appreciate you!

By: miller811 on 6/26/09
Wow, Bart, you are really taking a tough stand on this position... Surely waiting for you to sell us down the river on the Cap and Trade bill today. Hope everyone is ready to pay double for electricity, gas, etc. That stimulus package sure is working out great, 10.6% unemployment..... we needed to pass that 800 billion dollar bailout to keep unemployment under 8%...
What a joke....

By: abide on 6/26/09
We should enforce the laws we have instead of adding to the ones we won't enforce.

By: Farmall on 6/26/09
I see the Feds have started a policy of cath and release for the 287G program in Nashville. ICE won't take them anymore, just gives them a court date in Memphis, and surprise they don't show up.

By: Dave42 on 6/27/09
I know you have all heard about the budget problem in California. Well it exists throughout our whole country, but it is at it's worst in Ca. The reason for this is all the money that is spent on these illegal trespassers for medical, housing, schooling, food and food stamps. I could go on and on. What I am trying to get at is that if the fools in Sacramento would quit subsidising the trespassing criminals they would save BILLIONS. This same situation is going on with our Federal Gov't and if we don't get rid of Princess Nancy, and Prince Harry, and the rest of their minions like Kennedy, Boxer, Menendez, Feinstine, and some of those other Socialists, in a few years noone will even be able to recognize the United States. If we don't watch out it'll even be illegal to mention God or Jesus.


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