Word: patrollers
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Senior Administration officials have promised that Ridge will be given budget "pass-back" authority, which means that he will be able to direct the agencies under his purview, like the border patrol, to reorder their spending priorities. His staff is expected to be about 100 strong, many detailed from other agencies. Ridge has already picked Mark Holman, his oldest and most trusted political associate, to run the operation as chief of staff, and is eyeing Admiral Steve Abbott, who has been the military voice on the homeland-security staff currently housed in the Vice President's office. White House officials...
...commission co-chaired by Rudman and former Democratic Senator Gary Hart concluded in January that the threat of terrorism called for nothing short of a new federal department combining FEMA, the Customs Service, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard. Many in Congress agree. "If you want to get a job done, there's no substitute for having an agency with a budget," says Democrat Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. But given the fact that Republicans in Congress were trying to kill four Cabinet departments only six years ago, it's hard to imagine a Republican...
...response to the crisis I've read. While I understand something of the government's caution, I am impatient for us to act. We must retaliate. This country cannot afford to show any weakness or indecision. The borders should be closed and troops stationed at them. We must vigilantly patrol our coasts and airspace until further notice. As far as I'm concerned, we should already be bombing Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan until there is nothing left but rubble-filled craters. BETH GRAY Los Angeles...
...Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue is on patrol. Its job is to eradicate sin, which, as defined by the totalitarian government of Afghanistan, includes simply listening to music. The Taliban, a collection of former theology students who took over Kabul in 1996, is best known for destroying ancient Buddhist statues and restricting the rights of women. It insists that there is a hadith (a record of the Prophet's sayings) warning people not to listen to music lest molten lead be poured into their ears on Judgment Day. Until then, the Taliban police are wreaking...
...therefore expand the earning potential of an expatriate community that will send home an estimated $9 billion this year alone. It would also allow these workers to travel back and forth, which is far too dangerous right now for most of those lucky enough to have eluded the Border Patrol once - and that cements the ties to home, and probably the southward flow of household capital, too. Politically, the current immigration regime is perceived by Mexicans as brutal, inhumane and an assault on their dignity, and that compounds a profound sense of resentment south of the border. The basic message...