…Labeled a “surge” by its proponents, the number of armed, full-time active duty US Border Patrol agents will double from 18,000 to "no fewer than 38,405...deployed, stationed, and maintained along the Southern Border" – more troops than will be in Afghanistan by the end of next year…According to UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa, for the Border Patrol “to catch a Mexican,” it cost US taxpayers $220 per capture in 1992, which escalated to $8,000 by 2013, and would rise further to $25,000 if SB 744 becomes law… – PJRC, July 17, 2013
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