{"id":24394,"date":"2021-04-13T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24394"},"modified":"2021-04-13T07:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:27:17","slug":"biden-dhs-funding-misses-crisis-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/04\/13\/biden-dhs-funding-misses-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Smoke and Mirrors at the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Joe Biden wants billions of dollars to house migrant children, speed up U.S. citizenship petitions and process asylum seekers. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas applauded<\/a> the \u201csmart [plan]\u2026 to better manage the border.\u201d Others call it more smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spending proposal allocates $52 billion for DHS, roughly the same as this year. Notably, it earmarks $84 million to investigate complaints of alleged white supremacy<\/a> at two DHS agencies \u2013 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) \u2013 while leaving Border Patrol funding flat in the face of historic migrant flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Down on the chaotic and overwhelmed southern border, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a> says reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy and completing the wall would be the most cost-effective moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Remain in Mexico program (formally titled Migrant Protection Protocols<\/a>) regulated the influx of border crossers prior to Biden entering office. In scrapping that program, halting wall construction and reverting to the catch-and-release policies of the Obama administration, Biden eviscerated immigration and border enforcement and, in effect, encouraged more illegal aliens to head north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[This\nis] why there are so many people coming here,\u201d Abbott asserted. \u201cEvery single\none of the Democrat candidates [in 2020]said if they are elected, they\nwill have open borders and they will be giving things for free to anybody\ncoming across.\u201d Biden is making good on his pledge, at taxpayer expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While expending $60 million<\/a> a week housing migrant minors, the administration proposes bringing on new immigration court judges to tackle a growing backlog of more than 1.1 million asylum cases. Yet adding staff and courtrooms at the border will merely facilitate faster rubber stamping of claims as Biden seeks to open up asylum eligibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times<\/a> reported, apparently without irony, that the White House funding request \u201cshows an increasing sense of urgency in the Biden administration to deter migration to the southwestern border.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only urgency we\u2019re seeing from Biden\u2019s team is a desire to get as many migrants into this country as quickly as possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Joe Biden wants billions of dollars to house migrant children, speed up U.S. citizenship petitions and process asylum seekers. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas applauded the \u201csmart [plan]\u2026 to better manage the border.\u201d Others call it more smoke and mirrors. The spending proposal allocates $52 billion for DHS, roughly the same<\/p>\n

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