They are about to try…..
Two Republican-led Senate committees late Monday released legislative text to flesh out a nearly $70 billion reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement agencies at the Department of Homeland Security through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term.
The Senate Judiciary Committee text shows that panel’s piece of the package would amount to nearly $39.2 billion, which includes nearly $2.5 billion for the Justice Department and Secret Service on top of DHS funding. A separate titlefrom the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would provide $32.5 billion, bringing the total to $71.7 billion in new spending.
Under the combined package, Immigration and Customs Enforcement would receive about $38.2 billion. The Judiciary title would provide over $30.7 billion of that figure, to be used for hiring and training, transportation, information technology, agreements with local police departments under the so-called 287(g) program and more.
An additional $7.45 billion in the Homeland Security Committee’s jurisdiction would go towards ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit. The group conducts criminal investigations into drug and weapons smuggling, human trafficking, cybercrime and potential terrorist activities.
Customs and Border Protection would get a little more than $26 billion, including nearly $22.6 billion for Border Patrol and other agency personnel, air and marine agents and field support. There’s an additional $3.45 billion for border security technology and screening efforts, including “non-intrusive equipment” that employs artificial intelligence to combat narcotics trafficking and screen individuals entering or leaving the U.S.
The text stipulates that any AI systems used for surveillance along U.S. borders must be approved by CBP “to accurately detect, identify, classify, and track items of interest in real time such that the system can make operational adjustments without the active engagement of personnel or continuous human command or control.”
The office of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin would get a separate, flexible $5 billion in the combined measure, to be used for any purpose consistent with other parts of the bill or the immigration-related parts of last year’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation package….
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Passage of this Bill , if it stays intact , would be a HUGE win for Stephen Miller and Trump’s ability to keep up mass deportation efforts along will stripping immigration protection from those who have had it….
The actions supported in this bill will continue to hurt the American economy….
This action is a effort to lock anti-immigration policies in against the expected Democratic majority in the House and maybe even in the Senate…
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