{"id":21882,"date":"2019-09-03T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21882"},"modified":"2019-09-03T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:50:57","slug":"dhs-budget-transfer-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/09\/03\/dhs-budget-transfer-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS \u2018Reprograms\u2019 Budgets as More Illegal Aliens Go Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS) pulled $271 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) and even Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to fund immigrant facilities (which are operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement) at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even with the shuffled funds, DHS still lacks sufficient facilities to detain everyone arriving at the border and requesting asylum or other relief from removal. Therefore, it continues to release more than 200 migrants a day<\/a> into the U.S. interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to $155 million taken from FEMA\u2019s\nDisaster Relief Fund, $39 million was removed from CBP\u2019s budget, and more than\n$45 million was siphoned from Coast Guard. TSA took a $24 million hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201creprogrammed\u201d funds will help pay for new\nimmigration hearing facilities and more ICE detention beds and transportation\nresources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cICE has already had to increase the number of\ndetention beds above what Congress funded,\u201d DHS explained in a statement.\n\u201cWithout additional funding \u2026 ICE will not be able to support the influx of\nmigrants from [CBP] apprehensions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it is, overwhelmed border agents are releasing illegal aliens at an average rate of 208 a day. Under \u201ccatch and release\u201d<\/a> practices, most illegal entrants disappear and once they are sent on their way into the U.S. never appear for any scheduled immigration hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHouse Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bonnie Thompson,\nD- Mississippi, warned that \u201ctaking money away from TSA and from FEMA in the\nmiddle of hurricane season could have deadly consequences.\u201d However, so could\nleaving our border unsecured and letting illegal aliens wander unsupervised\nabout the U.S. DHS is the agency charged with responding to both situations, so\nit is proverbially damned either way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress\u2019s\nfailure to properly fund border operations has created the worst of both worlds\nin which federal agency budgets (including CBP\u2019s) are cannibalized while\nillegal aliens are set loose to roam the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, add the $271 million in diverted funds to the ever-mounting cost illegal immigration imposes on this country. In 2017, FAIR estimated the tab at $134.9 billion a year<\/a>. That number (more than double what this country spends on defense research and development) is growing by the day, and America is no safer for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pulled $271 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) and even Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to fund immigrant facilities (which are operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement) at the U.S.-Mexico border. Even with the shuffled funds, DHS still lacks<\/p>\n

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