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60,000 federal workers responsible for securing borders have been told they will face furloughs due to spending cuts.
(CNN) -- The union representing Customs and Border Protection employees sent out a press release Thursday saying furlough notices are going out to all 24,000 CBP employees it represents.
This comes as the forced budget cuts that went into effect less than a week ago are resulting in "lengthening lines of passenger and commercial traffic at the nation's ports of entry," the release said. The National Treasury Employees Union said it has begun formal talks with CBP over furlough notices. The notices of as many as 14 unpaid furlough days are expected to affect managers and supervisors, as well as the workers the union represents.
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jsr
(7,712 posts)steve2470
(37,456 posts)The rest of us already know the sequester is a bad idea.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)People will be terrified Mexicans will be swarming the border. Your move GOP.
steve2470
(37,456 posts)Even low-info voters can understand this. I don't care about it personally, but I know the RW'ers are going to be terrified/outraged. Maybe the really hard core Teabaggers will be ok with it. Will be interesting.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)They don't care about what they should, but an unsecured border??? Now that's serious to them. I agree it will be interesting.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)without those nasty ragoolators snooping around ...
apocalypsehow
(12,751 posts)jonthebru
(1,034 posts)They are defeatists, they think the whole destruction of the Government thing is a great idea.
Its a way to hurt the unions in all sectors... Like the poison pill law the Post Office must follow, simply to strangle and kill the largest Federal Union.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Why the hell is CNN so damn surprised?
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)sticker to protect us from them brown skinned invaders.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Or wherever the news cameras are...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Drones aren't unionized, aren't paid any wages, don't get healthcare or pensions. The GOP is just making killing more competitive for their contractors...
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)dsc
(52,129 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)High-tech equipment can scan passports with RFID chips and X-Ray luggage. The GOP's plan of action from 9/11 made big money for their friends with DHS contracts. This could be the same thing. I wonder if any of those agents will ever be called back to work after this...
And I'm only speculating. The GOP does not care about keeping people out as they are the cheap labor party. The stuff that they've been selling their fans about crime, etc., was window dressing.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)No, a drone cannot read half a million passports/day at San Isydro from 10K feet.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)perceived patriotic duty and take unpleasant action. And hate media will be pleased to egg them on.
postulater
(5,075 posts)Isn't that the way society is really sposed to work?
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)lol. I think Reno 911 did a few segments about civilians protecting the border, I believe years from now Those episodes will been seen as being historically accurate
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)XRubicon
(2,212 posts)Seems kinda high...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)In my state alone, it was claimed that 41K federal workers would be furloughed or laid off, but the number may have been wrong. The first figures nationally were 750K furloughed or laid off and we need to consider that impact. For each of those families, it's more than just the worker affected. One man I know is going to lose $5K a month total wages and benefits until this is resolved, and others that were planning to start to do the labor he does are not getting to do their interviews. He is a long-term employee and that job insured his wife and children. They all have health problems. Now, because the GOP just had to play 'Obama, the one-termer' this is happening. He said that fortunately he has some money saved up, but the new hires are SOL. Great disruption in the lives of millions of people in the end.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)Response to Cooley Hurd (Original post)
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alp227
(31,959 posts)and how will terrorists be prevented from coming in?
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alp227
(31,959 posts)"Open borders" is way out of even DU's league, you know.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I understand in a generic way what the open borders argument is. But the RW wing nuts scream NAUnion, etc. In terms of trade, there aren't borders.
We have thoroughly ignorant people here in the USA who don't see the short or long picture. Nor do they care about technicalities. This is a leftover from the Bush 'just do it' era.
I don't know if the poster will return... wait, he can't return on this thread... but will probably explain what he said in another thread.
That is the libertarian viewpoint and it appeals to some. They can go at it in a positive way as a human rights issue in a wonderfully free world where everyone that crosses a border at will which would be great, or cast it negatively as if it's all a police state tactic to have a border control or a policing of anything.
DU only forbids America hating, which this sounds like, but perhaps that was an overreaction on his part. We've got a ton of newbies here.
spanone
(135,627 posts)ThomThom
(1,486 posts)Why is it the jobs go first? If we have to cut back lets find a way to protect the workers. How about no gas or oil changes for a month?
sofa king
(10,857 posts)From the time the Homeland Security law was drafted, Indian tribes were specifically and quite deliberately treated as local governments, so that Jack Abramoff could make money off of tribes by pretending to try to get them federal funding.
But Abramoff got busted instead, and the GOP ran like hell from the crime scene, never fixed the problem, and refuses to acknowledge that all of their supposed work improving border security is completely undone because a grifter's operation was suspended in mid-snooker.
As a result, the two dozen Indian reservations that border on another nation or the open ocean have never been secured, which of course has been perfectly well known to everyone wishing to enter or leave illegally for the past twelve years, which is why not one actual terrorist has been apprehended entering or leaving the United States in all of that time.. The border patrol thing was just a sham.
It never had any real purpose or importance because nobody with an actual plan would make the mistake of wandering into the areas of strong security, not when they can move a few miles over and evade a single overworked Tribal Police Officer covering a dozen miles of wide-open border.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)There are specific new funding figures in
113TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION
H. R. 933
Making appropriations for the Department of Defense, the Department of
Veterans Affairs, and other departments and agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)And a lot of it was a wasteful boondoogle. Maybe we could cut back on all those billions we're giving to folks like the sheriffs in Arizona and Texas, whose deputies now have two vehicles each, and they still whine about how Washington is ignoring the problem.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)There ought to be drones
Quick, send in the drones!
Marr
(20,317 posts)I mean the USELESS ones, like... eh... uh...
YOU KNOW! The useless ones!