{"id":24684,"date":"2021-06-24T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:38:12","slug":"dhs-budget-request-falls-short-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/06\/24\/dhs-budget-request-falls-short-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Insecurity: Biden Budget Flatlines Border Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Joe Biden\u2019s Fiscal Year 2022 budget<\/a> calls for double-digit percentage increases in domestic spending, but there is a glaring exception: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what Sen. Shelley Capito<\/a>, R-West Virginia, calls \u201chighly conspicuous thrift,\u201d the administration intends to keep DHS funding flat at $52 billion, even as waves of illegal aliens<\/a> continue to flow across the southern border with little or no resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Rep. John Katko<\/a>, R-New York, cited \u201calarming\u201d early-retirement rates among frustrated Border Patrol personnel, and asked DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas if the new budget would fund more officers to bolster the thinning Green Line. Mayorkas responded: \u201cIt does not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Border Patrol morale<\/a> is driven down by feckless catch-and-release<\/a> policies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehensions and deportations have plummeted<\/a> in the U.S. interior. Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson<\/a> stated in a February memo that \u201climited resources\u201d hobbled his agency\u2019s work. Johnson\u2019s assertion could be read as a self-serving excuse, but no one in the administration disputed his claim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While shortchanging critical\nDHS functions, Biden\u2019s budget provides billions of dollars in payments to three\ncountries that accounted for 40 percent of migrants arriving here in the past\nyear (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras). Purportedly, these outlays would address\nthe \u201csource\u201d of the immigration problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But FAIR<\/a> has found that without effectively securing the U.S. border, such disbursements do nothing to slow illegal migration (though the cash does find its way into the pockets of corrupt government officials, cartels, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Arthur<\/a>, of the Center for Immigration Studies, points out, hopefully, that Congress will have something to say about all this. \u201cThe budget request is just that \u2014 the administration\u2019s request for funding. Congress holds the purse strings under our constitutional order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats should join\nRepublicans in recognizing the obvious need for robust security and\nenforcement. \u201cIf the administration is not going to control the massive migrant\nflow and defend the border, somebody has to,\u201d Arthur says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Joe Biden\u2019s Fiscal Year 2022 budget calls for double-digit percentage increases in domestic spending, but there is a glaring exception: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In what Sen. Shelley Capito, R-West Virginia, calls \u201chighly conspicuous thrift,\u201d the administration intends to keep DHS funding flat at $52 billion, even as waves of illegal aliens<\/p>\n

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