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Obama signs $600M border security bill keen on law. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama resting on Friday signed a bill direct $600 million extra to securing the U.S.-Mexico limit, a modest election-year success that underscores his breakdown so far to deliver an overhaul of migration law.


The original law will pay for the hire of 1,000 more Border Patrol agent to be deployed at serious areas, as well as new Immigration as well as Customs Enforcement agents. It provides for new connections equipment also greater use of unmanned surveillance drone. The Justice Department gets more money to assist catch drug dealers and individual traffickers.

But the bill cut down short by the principles Obama has set for commerce by the immigration problem. In a language last month Obama reiterate his commitment to a complete approach that would protected the border other than also address the 11 million illegal immigrants already inside the country.

"Our limits are just too immense for us to be intelligent to solve the trouble only with fences and limit patrols," the president supposed then. "It won't work."

Obama sign the bill Friday in a low-key Oval Office service alongside Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. There be cameras present, except no reporters. The action come a day following the Senate convenes in special session through its summer recess to go by the bill.

Napolitano supposed later: "This bill is obviously another step onward on border security, on summit of the significant development that the administration have already made. It is single of the many tackle in the toolbox we have construct along the border."