Posted on 07/18/2018 8:36:48 AM PDT by GonzoII
A fiscal 2019 spending measure was introduced in the House on Wednesday that provides $5 billion for a southern border wall and additional funding for border security that aims to achieve “100 percent scanning” of the border within five years.
The Homeland Security appropriations subcommittee measure would fund more than 200 miles of “new physical barrier construction” along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The legislation also includes $223 million to add 375 additional border patrol agents above the Trump administration request, including 140 canine teams, that, according to the House Appropriations Committee, will “initiate a five-year strategy toward achieving 100 percent scanning on the southern border.”
The measure increases the budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement by $328 million over fiscal 2018. Of that new funding, $78 million is allotted for the hiring of 400 additional ICE agents and support staff.
The funding far exceeds the $1.6 billion for border security that Congress passed in the fiscal 2018 spending measure and it goes a long way toward achieving President Trump’s top campaign promise to secure the border with a wall.
The funding plan is guaranteed to draw fierce opposition from Democrats, who not only oppose border wall funding but have worked to prevent funding for additional Border Patrol and ICE agents.
Some Democratic lawmakers and candidates for Congress have called for abolishing ICE. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has called for overhauling ICE and has worked to prevent spending bills from including money for new agents or border wall funding.
But Republicans said Tuesday that the agents and and wall are needed to stop the flow of drugs and gangs across the southern border.
“Cartels are trafficking $64 billion a year in drugs and people across our border and much of it comes through one small stretch at the Rio Grande Valley,”...
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He was selling the sons-of-bitches guns, ASSAULT RIFLES.
Wire cutters are useless against the proposed wall. Pogo Sticks might help.
Drones are the way to go.
The poster was referring to concertina WIRE.
I hope this makes it to a vote - and we can see who the real patriots and traitors are in the GOP Congress.
I was talking about the bullet train should never be built, not the wall. Ee need to build the wall. Somebody referred to the California boondoggle bullet train that is a cash cow for Diane Feinstein’s husband.
Not mutually exclusive. We need both the wall and 100% scanning. Without that, they will just tunnel under the wall or punch holes in it eventually. We need both the wall and full monitoring of the wall. We need to stop this invasion in its tracks.
I’m not naive however. The very next president, either commie Rat or GOP Globalist, will halt all wall construction and flood us with illegals again. BOTH parties want it. Trump is the only barrier to it.
IF they start fining people for real infractions of the law when caught employing illegals, they new officers may pay for themselves.
We still need the wall ASAP, and agreed the two corrupt parties are both working against it.
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