July 27, 2007
Senate OKs $3 billion to guard border

The Washington Times

Border security prevailed in the first major skirmish on immigration since President Bush's broad guest-worker bill collapsed last month.

The Senate yesterday passed $3 billion in emergency spending for immigration and border enforcement, adding it to the 2008 homeland security spending bill, while the House late Wednesday passed a measure that would free two U.S. Border Patrol agents serving time for shooting a fleeing illegal-alien drug trafficker in the buttocks.

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Posted by tyne at July 27, 2007
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