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,”...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“100% scanning in 5 years! WTH?”
This is about the technology component (infrastructure, personnel and technology). It would set a goal of having constant (24x7) “eyes on” the whole 1,950 miles of border in five years. It is a big part of what they call “operational control” of the border - watching the whole length, and being able to effectively respond to incursions (personnel, transportation).
Basically, it is a system of networked cameras with artificial intelligence software to alert the Border Patrol when people are detected. It leaves the door open to including other elements (like vibration sensors in the ground, or airborne/satellite monitoring), but the camera technology is ready to go.
Per mile, it costs 1/100th to 1/1,000th as much as building barrier, and can be deployed more quickly. It greatly improves the percentage of illegals apprehended. It also provides very good intelligence on traffic patterns, as the smugglers shift their routes.
Even when we have great barrier and other infrastructure in an area, we would still benefit from having this layer of technology.
Here is hoping it never gets built. The whole thing was pork barrel to make Diane Feinstein’s rich husband richer.
Make sure to price in the look-out towers.
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I think they have. Only the towers will be mobile.
Do it now while the far left extremists over at CNN, and their cult are still screaming about Russia
The $20 billion cost of the Wall is less than a rounding error in the overall federal budget.
Ever heard of wire cutters?
And this is from the more conservative side of an entirely GOP-led Congress!
“Scanning” is bogus.
We need a double, massive wall with a two-way road, patrolled by the military, in between.
And a lot less than the benefits provided to trespassers by our tax dollars.
BS!
Wait, they still having issues sh*tting out 30 billion for the wall? Like wtf, these idiots spend that much on loads of worthless other sh*t every till they spend taxpayer money!!!?
Basically the correct wall will stop a lot of this incoming.
But it will have to be monitored for scaling also.
Agreed. A well placed bullet can
easily take out a camera, and
underground sensors are useful
only on high traffic trails.
The coyotes will figure out where
these sensors are located and route
their contraband to areas not covered.
We need the wall.
The National Guard has been mobilized along the border leading to the detention of 10,000 invaders in six months.
Trump could not have worked harder to achieve his policy goals, there isn’t a man on earth who could work like him.
And this is in the face of opposition from the Goebbelsmedia, the courts and members of his own party.
What gives you the absurd idea than nothing will be done in the five year window when the law is finally being enforced and the attractiveness of Illegalism has been reduced leading to fewer attempts to violate the border.
Invaders? Surely you mean the poor, hungry, destitute, masses/refugees right? Or are we talking folks who would rather NOT fix the problems in their own s**thole countries because they don’t have a 2nd amendment.
The Cartels have plenty of guns, enough to have killed 130 politicians in the last 10 months.
Before the gun becomes critical the Brain must know what it is doing.
The Cartels have plenty of guns, enough to have killed 130 politicians in the last 10 months.
Before the gun becomes critical the Brain must know what it is doing.
So, is eric holder still getting royalty checks from them?
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