60,000 Border And Customs Agents Told To Take Furloughs
” Sixty-thousand federal employees responsible for securing the nation’s borders and facilitating trade will be furloughed for as many as 14 days starting next month because of $85 billion in cross-government spending cuts.
The federal government notified the workers on Thursday, CNN reports.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said the furloughs and other austerity measures would cause delays at ports of entry, including international arrivals at airports, and would reduce the number of border patrol officers on duty at any one time, CNN reports.
David Aguilar, the agency’s deputy commissioner, said it must cut about $754 million by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.The agency plans to institute furloughs throughout its departments, a hiring freeze — and to reduce or eliminate overtime, compensatory time, travel and training. Other federal agencies are following similar steps because of the spending cuts that took effect on March 1 through sequestration.
The Customs furloughs will begin in mid-April, with reductions in border patrol overtime starting on April 7, Burke said.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday that she expects customs wait times to increase to 150 to 200 percent of normal, CNN said.
“I don’t mean to scare, I mean to inform,” Napolitano said. “If you’re traveling, get to the airport earlier than you otherwise would. There’s only so much we can do with personnel.” “
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This crap is all part of a shakedown being perpetrated on the American People by King Barack Hussein and his Authoritarian Regime. If he doesn’t get what he wants, when he wants it, then he will simply go to SCORCHED EARTH tactics. (That is a Two Way street)
He knows the released inmates are a problem in the making.
He knows the border furloughs will cause more illegals.
All fears of the American People.
Then later on, he will grant amnesty to our new citizens and voters. Welfare. Food Stamps. Taxpayer funded abortions. College tuition. What a hero King Barack Hussein is to them. But, the liberal supporters are not burning effigies of him or with a effigies with a rope, as that is not politically correct, though the true feelings of THIS American.
Let all the politicians get stupid(er), and eventually even the staunchest liberals might reach the breaking point. Right now, many are fearful with the prospect of revolution and are not blaming gun owners or conservatives and beginning to examine the behaviors and actions of their beloved liberal now turned Authoritarian Regime, government.
I will bet that, Obama will even deputize illegals as his civilian militia, it’s the old criminal ploys of Chicago.