Democrats pitch 'cutting edge technology,' but no border wall money

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Democrats pitch 'cutting edge technology,' but no border wall money
by Susan Ferrechio
 | January 30, 2019 04:58 PM



House Democrats negotiating a border security deal with Republicans said Wednesday they have written a plan that leaves out President Trump's demand for a wall or barrier along the southern border.

“If you are asking if there is any money for a border wall, there is not,” said Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., a top appropriator and member of the panel, said.

Roybal-Allard was among a bipartisan group of 17 House and Senate lawmakers who met for the first time Wednesday in an effort to strike a deal on border security and federal funding by a Feb. 15 deadline.

The leader of the group, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., said she is not ruling out wall funding as the negotiations proceed but suggested Democrats for now will stick to their view that a border wall is unnecessary and that other enhancements, such as technology, would be more effective.

“We are open to everyone’s facts and figures but I can assure you we are going to be talking about facts,” Lowey said. “Everything is on the table.”

The main sticking point is funding for a southern border wall, which President Trump said is required for his signature on any funding bill.

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[Frank Cannon]

Notice how these horses ass Rats always babble about "Cutting edge tech" but never elaborate. That's because there is no "Cutting edge tech". It's all a diversion.

[Right_in_Virginia]

How do you secure borders like these with only "cutting edge technology"?


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[Emjay]

Notice how these horses ass Rats always babble about "Cutting edge tech" but never elaborate. That's because there is no "Cutting edge tech". It's all a diversion.

They would rather rip their fingernails out that support anything that mentions 'wall' or even 'barrier."

They are beyond corrupt.

[Elderberry]

Details of the Democratic plan prepared by the House Appropriations subcommittee on Homeland Security have yet to be released. But Roybal-Allard said the plan would leave out wall funding and instead pay for 1,000 new Customs and Border Protection personnel and new equipment to scan vehicles for drugs as they travel into the United States.

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-anti-immigration-push-border-patrol-forces-new-low-775839
The Border Patrol employed only 19,437 agents under Trump in fiscal year 2017—nearly 2,000 short of a Congressional mandate that the force have a minimum of 21,370 agents—and the lowest numbers since the final year of the George W. Bush administration, when 17,499 agents were on staff, Customs and Border Protection data shows.

That means that for all its anti-immigration rhetoric, the Trump administration deploys fewer border patrol guards than at any time during the Obama administration. The agency’s fiscal year runs from October 1 through September 30.

The staffing shortage has created a national security vulnerability, Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), the chairwoman of the Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee, said at a hearing on Tuesday.

“The manpower shortage is getting worse,” McSally said. “We are losing ground every single month and there is no end in sight as we continue to lose experienced agents and officers through attrition without the ability to efficiently hire new ones.”

Trump, who won the Oval Office partly on his promise to tighten border security, has failed to turn the situation around, despite ordering Customs and Border Protection to hire 5,000 new agents.

[Fishrrman]

The democrat-communists will never agree to ANYTHING that will enable the border wall to go forward.

Who here believes otherwise?

C'mon... out yourself!

[bigheadfred]

My BIL retired from ICE 10 years ago. He couldn't stand the pc crap stifling him from doing his job. Crap that he felt was putting his life in danger.

[Cyber Liberty]

The problem I have with using "cutting edge technology" to secure the border is that it has an "Off" button that's sure to be pushed the instant a Rat becomes President.  A wall can be torn down, but that would require effort and funding and is otherwise permanent.

[Smokin Joe]

The problem I have with using "cutting edge technology" to secure the border is that it has an "Off" button that's sure to be pushed the instant a Rat becomes President.  A wall can be torn down, but that would require effort and funding and is otherwise permanent.

Exactly.....
And because getting your picture taken doesn't stop anyone from doing what they are doing. That requires a physical presence, be that presence passive (a barrier or lock) or active (Rotweillers, guards, robot machine guns that home in on motion and thermal traces*). *"cutting edge technology"