Posted on 05/20/2022 1:12:48 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The public health order known as Title 42 is set to expire Monday, which is expected to add yet more migrants to what is already a record number.
Senior Department of Homeland Security officials are concerned they will not have enough funding and resources to cover the recording-breaking number of migrants at the southern border, especially as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepares to lift Title 42 on Monday, according to internal planning documents reviewed by NBC News.
The additional funding is needed to increase space to hold migrants for processing, expand a program known as “alternatives to detention,” where migrants either wear an ankle monitor or check in by phone with an officer while they wait for their court hearing, and increase transportation of migrants, the documents say.
ICE has predicted it will need to increase the number of deportation flights as well as flights and buses from the border to cities in the interior of the U.S., where migrants will go to have their cases for asylum heard by judges, according to the planning memo.
A DHS spokeswoman said the agency is not currently seeking more funding for the border at this stage.
“DHS is working closely with the White House and other departments in federal government on efforts that are critical to successful management of the border,” said the spokeswoman. “Should additional resources be necessary, DHS will work with the White House to engage Congress on any potential need for supplemental appropriations.”
The three DHS officials who spoke to NBC News said White House officials are aware of the need for more money and resources. The White House officials have not formally asked Congress for a supplemental spending bill.
In a statement, the White House Office of Management and Budget said, “We are working closely with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure it has the resources it needs to successfully manage the border, including by maximizing the additional $1.4 billion we secured for DHS through the fiscal year 2022 government funding bill, reprogramming existing funds, or, should it become necessary, requesting supplemental funds from Congress.”
For now, DHS is using a $1.4 billion appropriation from Congress to handle a record level of border encounters, and planning to reprogram funding from other parts of the agency to handle what is expected to be an even higher number after the expiration of Title 42, the public health order issued to prevent the spread of Covid that has blocked more than 1.8 million migrants from entering the U.S. from Mexico since March 2020.
But according to the internal planning documents, both Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement will only be partially covered by reprogramming, and officials are pushing the administration to ask Congress for a supplemental spending bill.
“If the Department does not receive a supplemental, we legally cannot reprogram/ transfer enough funding to cover all the requirements,” one of the planning memos said.
That memo cites funding allocated for the Biden administration’s family reunification task force, designed to find and reunite migrant parents and children separated by the Trump administration, as a “must” that cannot be sacrificed in order to secure the border.
Without tapping into key programs, DHS agencies that handle migration would need roughly $1.2 billion in additional funds to cover the cost estimated if border crossings reach 10,000 per day, the document says. The extra costs would be higher if more migrants cross: $1.6 billion for 14,000 crossings a day and $2 billion for 18,000 per day. Currently roughly 7,400 migrants are encountered at the border per day, the highest number since records began being kept in 2000.
Three DHS officials told NBC News that the need for more funding has been voiced in recent meetings with White House officials, including one late last week and one early this week.
What’s the money for, to pay Chertoff and the other members of the American Cheka?
The border crisis is a serious security matter. As such the military needs to be assigned physical border protection. The passe comitatus restriction does not apply when dealing with foreign invaders and I know of no other excuse the military could come up with not to protect the nation at the border.
To setup the migrants comfortably, no doubt, in this country.
Fdhs....
Damn it, isn’t there a court order preventing this?
Uh, How about a wall? You know, the one the previous president started which was immediately stopped by our current resident in the White House. The one that even our GOP representatives fought against and refused to fund.
This pretending to care about the number of illegal aliens streaming across the border, while at the same time facilitating their crossing, is not fooling anyone.
“Pelosi....”We’re here to collect our cut””
Indeed.
Was Hunter in the hold of the plane?
Not if there’s nobody to enforce it - and there isn’t.
How much would they need if the “remain in Mexico” policy was reinstituted?
2 billion in free baby formula for the illegal invaders kids?
It is well worth it considering that you can take a cab into Saudi Arabia and spend 20 minutes or so going through customs at the end of the causeway on a cool desert night versus a couple of hours or more standing in the hot sun waiting your turn if your flight lands directly in Dammam during the daytime as most of them do.
We need bounty hunters. Not for the ILLEGALS, but the traitors we have running our country into the ground!
Remember when the left complained that $10 billion was too much to spend on a wall at the border?
To the extent Bronc0 is running anything, he is run by his betters and his fellow travelers.
Sorry
No money for that,,
, cuz there are no ‘ migrants ‘
at the border.
There are illegeal aliens who are breaking all our imigration laws
Ask for money to deport them and we can talk.
Bush League Republicans will be happy to help, unlike when Trump asked for fence money.
Nancy, 0bama`s beard...
A British YouTuber, ‘History Debunked’ was able to find from British public records how much the government was spending to house illegal immigrants in hotels, etc. Turns out, according to him, it is much more than British pensioners receive. He makes the point that the pensioners have paid into the system their entire lives while the illegals have not paid a penny.
To be honest, I haven’t looked, but I seriously doubt that such information is readily available here in the U.S. But it would be fascinating to know just how much money each illegal immigrant costs the Feds, the states, and local governments—housing, transportation, food stamps, health care, etc. etc. and see how that compares to say the average Social Security check. I’m sure anyone who made public such information would be quickly labeled a ‘white nationalist’ regardless of his or her skin color.
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