Yale must be so proud

Amidst all the rhetoric on the immigration flap issue, we need revisit one voice that rang forth with initiative and fortitude:

Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 [2004] after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006 [2,000 new agents a year for, um, 5 years]. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California, along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year.

Unfortunately, the President's 2006 budget only allows for 210 new border agents.

The White House referred questions about the border agents to the Homeland Security Department.

It's only bait and switch if the switch involves a lie, right?