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Tue May-16-06 08:47 AM
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"If securing our borders is our highest national priority, why will it take two years to hire and train the new Border Patrol agents?
"The 9/11 Commission recommended -- and Congress authorized -- the hiring of 10,000 new Border Patrol agents two years ago. Each year since, the president's budget requested and his Republican Congress funded fewer agents than we knew that we needed.
"Now we are asking our National Guard to step in where the Congress has failed to respond. And the president's proposal raises serious questions about the future of the National Guard."
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