March 23, 2007

Tricky Triggers
DHS to verify border security? Not So Fast...

"Does anybody really think the American people are so stupid as to be gamed again on the issue of border security?" -- Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- March 22
Dobbs: ....Is there anything in the legislation that requires that our borders and ports, I mean, be secure?
Gutierrez: Yes, we have triggers. We have triggers in the legislation.
Dobbs: All right.
Gutierrez: ...before you can even engage in legalization of those that are already here, the Department of Homeland Security has to establish that the new technology is in place. That it's available. That the funding is there. That the Border Patrol agents are -- so there are triggers. That biometric card, you don't have a biometric system that guarantees...
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Nonsense. This is exactly why ABP created Operation B.E.E.F. - to verify that the border is secure before any guest worker program is even discussed.

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