Border agents to serve in Iraq.The U.S. State A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and Department has contracted a private firm called DynCorp to recruit 120 veteran law-enforcement members with border-security experience to relocate to Iraq. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Houston Chronicle, these officers would serve as mentors for newly trained Iraqi border patrol agents. The U.S. Border Patrol currently employs approximately 13,000 agents. In recent years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time border has been overwhelmed by illegal immigrants illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa. (See: alien) , drug smugglers, and human traffickers. In response to the current border crisis, President Bush has promised to increase the number of Border Patrol agents to 18,000 by the end of 2008. Although 120 agents is not a very significant number, it still begs the obvious question: why is the State Department sending Americans to patrol Iraq's border who could be guarding the border here? |
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