New Border Patrol Station Almost Ready
The Border Patrol might start moving into their new station as early as tomorrow. The new location, at 110 Penn Street, is a 19,000 square foot building that can house up to fifty agents.
posted by Tom Harper at 9:21 PM
29 Comments:
I saw in that article that the Border Patrol as increased their agents from 4 to 42, recently.
It would be interesting to see the increase in crime stats that are being used to justify such a huge increase.
No shit. Seems like they ought to move the thing to Seattle. They need the help there with domestic GANGS and GANGS from other countries and crazy white dudes with guns. We don't.
"It would be interesting to see the increase in crime stats"
Yeah, good luck with that. "Trust us, we're from the government..."
US Border Patrol surge results in 2 cross-border arrests & that was exactly 2 years ago today.
Click on my name for more info.
Obviously, this shows this is just a political thing. The real life crime stats do not justify the many millions spent.
Follow the money.
I heard on the radio this morning that 5 cruise ships are docking in Victoria today. 5 in one day!
The story said they expect over 12,000 passengers in town.
And Port Angeles can't even get 1 to show up reliably. Or more than two in an entire year.
Just sayin'..
Excellent, i hope they expand further, we need more good jobs in PA and Border Patrol jobs are good!
Hey, things are looking up!
We CAN fix this! Or have lots of fun and make lots of money trying!!!
Romney, Mr. White Horse himself, gave the good people of the US the go ahead to disrupt public meetings!
Any rich person out there want to give me money, and I'll create a large organization that will employ thousands of people, just so we can disrupt public meetings? Think of the possibilities! And then we can brag about how it was all organized! Genius!
Thanks Mittens!
I agree with 8:34. What's the harm? More jobs, great fitting uniforms, much safer community for no extra $$, great fitting uniforms, nice people, great fitting uniforms, shiny fast cars, great fitting uniforms. Heaven on earth.
From today's Seattle Times:
"The U.S. Forest Service's use of Border Patrol agents as language interpreters and for law enforcement in stops involving Latinos on the Olympic Peninsula is discriminatory, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a decision.
As a result, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights within the USDA, which oversees the Forest Service, has ordered the agency to establish a new national policy so that non-English speakers can use national forests and parks without "an escalated risk of harm."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018327993_forks01m.html
Wow, according to the PDN, The assistant secretary for civil rights of the Department of Agriculture = The Forest Service
I like how they stopped capitalizing titles. Great way to save photons in these tough times.
I hate to burst your job-wantin' bubble folks, but...I don't think the Border Patrol is just gonna set up shop and then hire a bunch of locals. They will bring in hires from outside. And, when those hires cause trouble or tell the truth, they will be sent back outside.
The only local jobs positively affected by this expansion are for the folks working locally waiting tables. It seems like the BP guys eat out a LOT - two lunches a day, sometimes - so hopefully for our local waitstaffers they're good tippers.
anon 1:41
are you an idiot? do they grocery shop? buy homes? pay taxes? buy fuel?or do they get paid and sit at home and starve to death?
You need to take an economics class. Oh wait, i forgot the highlight of your education was probably flunking out of PAHS or maybe even better Crescent High.
anon 1:41pm
wait you mean they might bring health young men and women to Port Angeles. Can't imagine anything wrong with that? these types spend money, have children, and support our economy. That's exactly what this town needs.
you should think before you blog.
No, I'm not an idiot. And I do know that you have to make the first letter in a sentence, you know, one of those BIG letters. I also know you need to put spaces between your sentences. Oh, and when the letter "i" is used as a word, it's also a general practice to make it, you know, one of those BIG letters - as in "I".
And, as if it weren't actually already clear enough, I was merely saying that I don't believe that the BP will be hiring locals to be BP agents. I pretty much pointed out that they will have a (small) impact on the local economy, but, to repeat, I just don't believe they'll be hiring any PAHS or Crescent High (your examples) graduates as agents.
Now, you're free to disagree with me all you want. (And clearly you're pretty disagreeable.) And I may even be wrong - maybe they WILL be hiring locals as agents. But for the life of me, I don't know why anyone would get as upset as you seem to have gotten over what I said.
Whatsamatta U, eh?
3:39 - Hall monitor syndrome, that's all. The type of person who watches TV news non stop and only takes a break to bitch about it. You can always tell people like that, cut and paste the phrases, rearrange them, and no matter what order the groups of words are in, the point(lessness) still comes across.
I noticed the price of a barrel of oil dropped to a low of $83.
The last time gasoline prices were like we are paying now, a barrel of oil cost $150.
Those corporate types that know how to be "job creators" are sure hard at work these days, stripping the faltering economy of every penny they can scam from us.
Rip me off, baby.. rip me off all night long.
8:34, Agents aren't from here. If you were to become an agent, they'd ship you elsewhere. Seriously, it's not a "local thing". Wake up.
3:39 Great, yeah, they shop at Walmart and Safeway, and eat at McD's and Wendy's The money totally stays here, right?
None of you really get it, 42 BP agents earning, on the order of, 90,000 per year, is absolutely good for Port Angeles, period.
Whine all you want that is a fact.
We are lucky to have them.
God Bless America
It will house up to fifty agents.
Big deal, on good nights we had that many in the lounge area, and an other hundred in the dance area.
And maybe an other hundred in the annex. And none of that cost you taxpayers a cent.
Hmmm. 42 agents times $90,000 a year is $ 3,780,000 a year... That's nearly four million dollars a year for salary, not including benefits or the building or anything else.
Four million plus a year.
There are, what, 20,000 people in Port Angeles, 50,000 in Clallam County (at a guess). Well, gee, that's only $75 a year! Sure, we can all afford that! Boost their spending power across the Peninsula. It's like magic money!
In fact, maybe we could make more jobs like that. Instead of 42 new government workers earning $90,000 a year, maybe we can boost that number up to 500! Or a thousand! Think of the amount of money these new, highly-paid government workers could spend on local businesses!
See, I'm not stupid and I "get it". It's magic money all the way!! God bless!!!!!
I guess someone thinks those agents will spend all that money here? That'll be the day.
Right, it's all about those 42 agents having jobs. Never mind that it could be seen as an excessive and unnecessary number of federal employees. Never mind that they're paid with our tax dollars. Never mind that those same dollars might be put to better use, even right here in Clallam County. And never mind that their new digs make the eastern entrance to Port Angeles look a little bit like a prison camp.
No, just so long as those 42 agents have jobs, everything is golden here. I'm so glad that I don't have to worry anymore! So long as those 42 agents continue to arrest 2 or 3 illegals a month - Wow! America is safer than it's ever been!
Anon 10:14, you are showing that you really don't get it as Anon 6:09 said. If you had any sense you would not blog anymore and you should be embarrassed at your posts.
BBC i doubt they will spend it all here, but they will spend more than 42 unemployed people.
@Anon 10:12AM
Are you really so shallow and stupid?
At a time of such great economic distress, where services for the needy are being drastically cut or eliminated, you are saying we should be happy for the clear and obvious waste of millions of taxpayer monies for something there is NO demonstrated need for?
I don't get it after all? Oh noes, sad face!!
Please help me understand, because apparently I "really don't have any sense". He said "42 BP agents earning, on the order of, 90,000 per year, is absolutely good for Port Angeles, period. Whine all you want that is a fact."
Okay, I will agree with that statement. Short term, absolutely, that money flowing into Port Angeles will benefit us somehow or the other. But my point is... if 42 agents, that is government employees, earning $90,000 a year is absolutely good for Port Angeles (period), then why isn't 500 government employees earning that much even better? Why isn't 5,000? 50,000?
No one is answering that. And no one is asking "how much is too much?" or "are these agents justifiable in a nation that's so heavily in debt?" or "what's the criteria for this?" or even "who's going to pay for all this anyhow?". They're just thinking a sort term bump at the donut shop.
I know, I know... People on here have already pegged me a simpleton without any knowledge of how finances work. In fact, I'm such a simpleton I'm even using parts of children's fairy tales in blog posts. My "magic money" bit was lifted right from Jack and the Beanstalk's "magic beans".
You see, Jack had nothing. Rather than take the easy, safe solution and sell the cow he traded it for a handful of magic beans. Those magic beans grew into a pathway to a giant's house. Jack got out of poverty by stealing from the giant. When the giant noticed all his treasures were missing, he got angry and went searching for Jack. Jack killed the giant by toppling the bean stalk.
"If you had any sense you would not blog anymore and you should be embarrassed at your posts."
THIS is funny!
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