FILE -- In an Oct. 25, 2007 file photo a Predator drone unmanned aerial vehicle takes off on a U.S. Customs Border Patrol mission from Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has been hesitant to act for safety reasons. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin/file)
FILE - In this June 18, 2009, file photo, the United States Customs and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine's unmanned aircraft, the Predator B, sits on display at Fort Drum, N.Y. Unmanned aircraft have proven their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now they face an even greater challenge, the skies over the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration is under pressure from other government agencies, lawmakers and industry to issue flying rights for a range of unmanned aircraft. Some are as big as a small airliner, others no larger than a backpack. The tiniest are small enough to fly through the window of a house. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)
FILE -- In an Oct. 25, 2007 file photo pilot and U.S. Customs Border Patrol Air and Marine Division Air Interdiction Agent Sylvia Carrizoza flies a Predator drone unmanned aerial vehicle from a ground command post at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., during a night border mission. The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has been hesitant to act for safety reasons. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin/file)
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Slow One posted at 10:22 am on Tue, Aug 10, 2010.
It amazes me what can get done when both sides work for the betterment of all of us. Keep doing it, help the small businessman on main street get the country hiring again. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Make it in the USA.
AZ_Resident posted at 10:51 am on Tue, Aug 10, 2010.
I'm sure this is nothing more than a political ploy to make it look as though the White House is responding to the call. They're willing to spend millions more while it can all be circumvented pretty easily. Why not create jobs in the private sector by adding more I.C.E personnel, more jobs for Border Patrol, more jobs for personnel required to handle and process the illegals that are here and deport them. Then we'll all have more jobs...
Slabside posted at 11:32 am on Tue, Aug 10, 2010.
Yes, they have been approved. I'm quite certain the charlatan in the WH will find a way to delay the deployment just like the 600 troops we were supposed to receive.
samkat posted at 1:48 pm on Tue, Aug 10, 2010.
Does anyone want to take bets that Jeff Flake voted No? Even though Jeff Smith is also a conservative, I will take him over Flake as just about anybody will be a welcome change.
CSalafia posted at 2:55 pm on Tue, Aug 10, 2010.
"I'm sure this is nothing more than a political ploy to make it look as though the White House is responding to the call."
AZ_Resident typifies today's conservative. Obama could walk on water and they'd respond with "What? Is he too good to swim?"
Slabside posted at 4:12 pm on Tue, Aug 10, 2010.
CSalafia says, "AZ_Resident typifies today's conservative. Obama could walk on water and they'd respond with "What? Is he too good to swim?". Csalafia, do you have a valid arguement for this story? I thought not, just anther liberal tool with his nose up Obammy's tushkus.
Slabside posted at 4:17 pm on Tue, Aug 10, 2010.
BTW, if Obama could walk on water, Harbor Freight, Lowes and Home Depot would be selling every table vise, heavy chain and anvil they had in stock.
ArizonaRising posted at 5:00 pm on Tue, Aug 10, 2010.
The supporters of illegals ought to direct their anger where it belongs - at the US federal government and its multi-national corporate friends who are actively working to destroy Mexico and to force the migration of 'undesireables' north where the migrants can, then, be used as political pawns. Support law and order in the world and expose the real criminals whom you've taken as friends.
The U.S. Ploy to Promote Genetically Engineered Seeds and Pesticides to Poor Mexican Farmers Is Impoverishing Their Communities
The author takes a trip to Mexico to see the 'green revolution' firsthand -- and what she finds is shocking.
http://www.alternet.org/story/147764/the_u.s._ploy_to_promote_genetically_engineered_seeds_and_pesticides_to_poor_mexican_farmers_is_impoverishing_their_communities/?page=entire
Masterrogue666 posted at 6:18 am on Wed, Aug 11, 2010.
"These include the popular H-1B visa program. India says higher fees would discriminate against its companies and workers." -- Big business takes the jobs from American workers and send them there. Funny, I didn't read of any complaint from India when that happened....
AmosENeuman posted at 7:53 am on Wed, Aug 11, 2010.
YESSS!!!!!!!!
Still not enough, but evidently some of the brighter bulbs on the tree are starting to get a clue