Bombshell: Obama cutting border surveillance in half

Article subtitle: 
Agents threatened with termination for enforcing law
Article publisher: 
World Net Daily
Article date: 
7 February 2016
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to cut 50 percent of the budget for aerial surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border, agents revealed at a congressional hearing Thursday.
 
In an effort to understand why DHS is cutting funding, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, wrote a bipartisan letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson.
 
“Any decrease in aerial observation is not only imprudent, but contradicts the very mission of border security enforcement,” the letter states...
 
Furthermore, on Thursday, a top Border Patrol agent revealed that if border agents follow the law and ask illegal aliens why they are coming to the U.S., they will be terminated, the Daily Caller reported...