It is not just people coming across our border. it is what they are bringing across the border. The General Accounting Office reported that they were able to bring nuclear materials across our border. Now. 6 months after we received that report from the General Accounting Office. the Republicans want to get serious about border security. What has taken so long? For years. we have had procedures and laws in place to secure our bordersnot well but certainly betterand they have been virtually ignored. The September 11 Commission told the President he should work with other countries to develop a terrorist watch list that our Border Patrol agents could use to check people coming in. Did he do that? No. The September 11 Commission gave him a failing grade. In the 9/11 Actwe all remember thatCongress provided for 2.000 new Border Patrol agents. Guess what. Like so many things. they are authorized but not paid for. We have been unable to get the President and the Republican Congress to pay for these new Border Patrol agents. We authorized them and do not pay for them. We did not oppose the sensible fence on the border.
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