President Biden will ask Congress for $14 billion for border security, as part of his “immediate budget request” to fund US “national security needs.”
Although Biden, 80, did not mention the porous southern border once during a roughly 15-minute speech Thursday from the Oval Office, the second of his presidency, several media outlets have reported that funding for border protection is indeed part of his $105 billion. ask Congress.
One lawmaker, however, expressed concern that the money would not actually be used to tighten the border.
“It should be designed to secure the border, not to facilitate travel across the border,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told the Associated Press.
Confirming the concerns of his colleagues, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) argued Thursday that additional congressional appropriations for the southern border should go to light costs that come with policing the US-Mexico border line.
Several media outlets have reported that President Biden’s potential funding for border protection will be part of his $105 billion request to Congress. Reuters
“There is a huge need to reimburse processing costs,” Murphy told the AP.
“So it’s staff costs, it’s soft facilities, it’s transport costs.”
“This is an additional funding bill. Once you start loading it with policy, that looks like a plan to fail,” he said, expressing doubt that lawmakers will be able to “resolve our differences on immigration in the next two weeks.”
Migrants crossing the Rio Grande river from Mexico to the United States are transported by US Customs and Border Protection officers by boat for processing on September 25, 2023 in Eagle Pass. James Keivom Sen. Kevin Cramer said the funding should have a border design to be more secure, and not designed to “facilitate travel across the border.”
About 3.8 million people have entered the US through its borders since Biden took office in 2021 — nearly half of whom slipped into the country illegally and were never caught.
So-called “holidays” have been on the rise since the president’s inauguration.
The US Border Patrol reported at least 530,000 absconders – migrants believed to have crossed the border without being detected or apprehended – this year, as of May 2023, the last month for which data were released.
More migrants are seen crossing the Rio Grande river from Mexico to the United States.James Keivom
That number is just short of the record-breaking 600,000 reported by the Department of Homeland Security through 2022, and far more than the 389,000 reported in 2021.
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