The U.S. Won’t Secure a Single Additional Mile of Border in 2010

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to move several hundred Border Patrol agents away from the U.S.-Mexico border and will not secure a single additional mile of the U.S. border in fiscal 2010, according to the department’s annual performance report. The document—“Department of Homeland Security Annual Performance Report: Fiscal Years 2008-2010”—was originally published by the Bush administration on Jan. 15 and was updated by the Obama administration on May 7. Until this year, the department showed steady progress in this metric. In fiscal 2005, for example, it had a goal of putting 150 miles of border “under effective control,” and it achieved 288 miles. In fiscal 2008, it had a goal of putting 674 miles of border “under effective control,” and it achieved 757 miles. But this year, the progress stalled. In fiscal 2009, according to page 24 of the report, the department’s goal is to have 815 miles of border “under effective control.” In fiscal 2010, it says, the goal is also to have 815 miles of border “under effective control.” In other words, whatever else it does over the next 12 months, the department does not plan to bring a single additional mile of border “under effective control.”...CNSNews