60 Minutes on the Border

Two weeks ago, President Bush promised to spend more than ever before to stop illegal immigrants from crossing our 2,000-mile mile border with Mexico. It’s not the first time a president has pledged to do that; in the early 90s, the Clinton Administration also vowed to tighten the US-Mexican border. Since then, the U.S. government has tripled the budget for border control, spending a small fortune on surveillance technology, not to mention thousands of additional border patrol agents. All of that was supposed to make it harder for illegal immigrants to cross over in cities and towns along the border. And it did. So why are some of the same people who designed the strategy now saying it’s been a huge waste of taxpayers’ money?  60 MINUTES will take a hard look at the problem on this week’s show. Sunday, Dec. 11, 7PM ET/PT on CBS.

KJ