Last night CNN ran a story about the fact that since 2004 the Bush budget has CUT funding for border protection operations in Arizona by 60%. The story went on to say that the State of Arizona has requested the restoration of those cuts 30 times and the Bush Administration refused to restore the cuts.
Arizona is where more drugs enter the U.S. then any other point along the Mexican/American Border. It is also an area were significant numbers of illegal alien’s come into the United States. Given the renewed warnings of likely attacks on the U.S., why would we CUT funding to safeguard our border?
The Democrats have restored the funding for Arizona in the 2008 budget and were informed by the White House that Bush would VETO an appropriation that would restore the border protection funding for Arizona.
I would like any of the Bush supporters on this Blog site to provide a coherent answer to these two questions:
Why would the funding have been cut?
Why, given the danger we face, would a President threaten to Veto restoring these funds to protect our border?