{"id":3003,"date":"2010-02-15T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2010-02-15T14:32:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:32:45","slug":"fast-fact-the-national-council-of-the-race-la-raza-to-get-34-million-in-taxpayer-grants-in-the-obama-budget-border-patrol-and-border-security-budget-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/fast-fact-the-national-council-of-the-race-la-raza-to-get-34-million-in-taxpayer-grants-in-the-obama-budget-border-patrol-and-border-security-budget-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"FAST FACT: THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE RACE  (La Raza) to get $3.4 million in taxpayer grants in the Obama budget &#8211; Border Patrol and border security budget cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;Another $3.4 million grant is to go to the National Council of La Raza in Chicago. &#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/classified\/jobs\/chi-ap-il-jobtraining-illin,0,2186191.story\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Congress approves Obama&#8217;s proposals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; The Border Patrol, which doubled to 20,000 agents during the Bush administration, would lose 180 agents through attrition. Border staffing would stay the same.<br \/>\n&#8211; A &#8220;virtual&#8221; fence of pole cameras and sensors aimed at stopping illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and terrorists on the U.S.-Mexican border, faces a $225 million cut from $800 million last year. That would delay implementation while a review of the fence, plagued by technical problems, is done.<br \/>\n&#8211; Five of the Coast Guard&#8217;s 13 elite Maritime Security and Safety Teams, created since 2001 to protect waterfront cities, would be eliminated. Obama is proposing cuts in New York City; San Francisco; Anchorage, Alaska; and King&#8217;s Bay, Ga.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policeone.com\/border-patrol\/articles\/1999986-Obamas-budget-cuts-will-curb-border-security\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Another $3.4 million grant is to go to the National Council of La Raza in Chicago. &#8221; HERE If Congress approves Obama&#8217;s proposals: &#8211; The Border Patrol, which doubled to 20,000 agents during the Bush administration, would lose 180 agents through attrition. Border staffing would stay the same. &#8211; A &#8220;virtual&#8221; fence of pole cameras [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}