Holding detained immigrants before processing cost money….
Republicans have impeached the Homeland Sec.
And will NOT Ok money for the Bidsen admin to do anything either…
Republicans ARE also beating up the Biden admin for NOT doing anything about the border , even though the current border crossings have dropped…(The NY DEMOCRATIC guy who just won a Special Election talked about securing the border)
SOOOOOOO?
With a $700M possible hole in their budget?
We now have thoughts about RELEASING thousands of detainee’s to make the ICE/Homeland budget fit….
This back and forth IS gonna get interesting….
The budget crunch and the proposal also present a difficult scenario for the Biden administration heading into the spring, when illegal crossings at the southern border are expected to spike again. On Tuesday, House Republicans voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his border record, and immigration remains President Biden’s worst-rated issue in polls.
Former president Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican front-runner in the presidential campaign, boasted of his role in influencing lawmakers to block the border bill, which he said would have benefited Biden politically.
DHS could try to cover the funding gap at ICE by reprogramming money from the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration or other agencies within the department. But such moves are contentious, and ICE officials say the $700 million deficit is the largest projected shortfall the agency has faced in recent memory…..