Obama Takes Credit for Another Bush Accomplishment
Jennifer Rubin, on Right Turn, her blog on the website of the Washington Post, offers a tart observation on our chief executive's immigration record:
As for enforcement, Obama has exaggerated his own success on that front. The White House brags that it has doubled the number of border agents since 2004. But who did that? An indignant Capitol Hill Republican e-mails me: “What they don’t tell you is that the doubling all happened before President Obama took office. Remember, it was the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) that included a provision increasing the number of Border Patrol agents by 2,000 annually from FY2006 to FY2010. In other words, they’re bragging on an accomplishment that happened during the *gasp* Bush administration...."
That would be the administration that put forth and fought for its own comprehensive immigration plan. Pretty gutsy. Entirely un-Obama.
Entirely.
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Dec '10
Re: Obama Takes Credit for Another Bush Accomplishment
I'd like to ask the President to live up to his speech in El Paso: if he wants to test the proposition that immigration hawks are never satisfied, then he needs to see to it that the border fence is finished as already mandated by Congress. Until then, we can put off any discussion of other immigration reform measures as premature.