Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday asserted the
southern border is secure despite the massive surge of illegal minors
from Central America that has overwhelmed federal agencies.
“The border is secure,” he told reporters after the Senate Democrats’
weekly policy lunch. “[Sen.] Martin Heinrich [(D-N.M.)] talked to the
caucus today. He’s a border state senator. He said he can say without
any equivocation the border is secure.”Reid said lawmakers need to
worry less about border security and focus instead on President Obama’s
$3.7 billion request to help process the tens of thousands of children
from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador who have been apprehended on
the border.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson warned
Congress last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is due to
run out of money by mid-August because of the large number of minors
attempting to cross into Texas. He said Customs and Border Protection
would run out of funding by mid-September.
He estimated that as many as 90,000 illegal minors would be apprehended by the end of September.
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