President Bush would like to see one U.S. border agency in order to improve security at the nation's borders.
Ensuring security while not hampering the movement of commercial truck traffic across the borders has become a major concern of the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Numerous published accounts cite anonymous sources reporting that during a Tuesday meeting of the Homeland Security Council, the President put forth three options on how to proceed with coordinating efforts between the U.S. Treasury's Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service:
A decision won't be made until Bush gets back from a trip to Latin America.
Ensuring security while not hampering the movement of commercial truck traffic across the borders has become a major concern of the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Numerous published accounts cite anonymous sources reporting that during a Tuesday meeting of the Homeland Security Council, the President put forth three options on how to proceed with coordinating efforts between the U.S. Treasury's Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service:
- Form a new border agency, combining Customs and the INS. This would form one of the largest enforcement agencies in the federal government.
- Leave the agencies separate, but divide the INS into two groups, one to focus on enforcement and one to serve immigrants.
- Leave the agencies as they are, "which is not a viable option," according to one source.
A decision won't be made until Bush gets back from a trip to Latin America.
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