45 agents swelled to 327 agents now? For what? Seriously. OK so the pot growers have to smuggle their BC Bud across the border, but that's the same as pre-9/11. And what good does it serve to have agents intercepting pot? Just drives up the price and makes the business more dangerous. How does that benefit anyone? How many terrorists have these 282 extra agents prevented from entering the US? Oh, none because the only terrorist coming across the Canadian border did so just before Y2K.

Federal deficit reduction suggestion: ditch the extra border patrol and Blackhawk helicopter and arm the farmers that live along the border. They're more likely to know the difference between a drug smuggler and a terrorist anyway.