State and Local Law Enforcement's Key Role in Better, Faster, Cheaper Border Security

Publication Date: November 2006

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James Jay Carafano; David B. Muhlhausen

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Immigration

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Federal support for border security policing should be viewed as a short-term bridging program to secure the border now, not as a pork-barrel program allocated through earmarks. To fund these efforts, Congress and the Administration should plan to allocate about $400 million per year over three years out of the projected spending on homeland security grants.