There are two questions lawmakers must ask themselves now that they will, supposedly, finally focus on the border: 1) Is their job to represent illegal aliens or to defend Americans first and foremost from the effects of those trying to come here illegally and those orchestrating the smuggling? 2) Is the best way to deal with the humanitarian aspect of the border crisis, which itself should be secondary to security problems for Americans, by holding the line and not letting anyone enter or by offering better accommodations for catch-and-release? Unfortunately, Senate Republicans clearly believe their job is to protect illegal aliens before Americans.
Most of the money Republicans plan to allocate in the Wednesday markup at the Senate Appropriations Committee is not even for Border Patrol and ICE, but for Health and Human Services.
What about the upcoming September 30 budget deadline? McConnell is too busy bashing Trump's budget director and demanding that he give Democrats everything they want on spending levels without any parallel commitment on border funding.
Nothing within the realm of defense matters if our military is not directed to protect our own border properly, before defending the borders of broken-down states in the Middle East.
We need more funding for boats, dogs, and horses for border agents to hold the line at the border itself and prevent illegal immigrants from coming across in the first place.
"Even President Obama requested a stronger supplemental funding bill for the border during the crisis of Central American teens in the summer of 2014. His July 8, 2014, request to Congress included"$879 million [for ICE] would pay for detention and removal of apprehended undocumented adults traveling with children," several hundred million in funding for the State Department to "repatriate and reintegrate migrants to Central America, and $5 million in a media campaign in Central America to "Deliver the message that unaccompanied children are not given a permit to stay in the U.S.".
Republicans are now weaker on the border than Obama was in 2014.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/senate-republicans-now-weaker-border-obama-2014/
Most of the money Republicans plan to allocate in the Wednesday markup at the Senate Appropriations Committee is not even for Border Patrol and ICE, but for Health and Human Services.
What about the upcoming September 30 budget deadline? McConnell is too busy bashing Trump's budget director and demanding that he give Democrats everything they want on spending levels without any parallel commitment on border funding.
Nothing within the realm of defense matters if our military is not directed to protect our own border properly, before defending the borders of broken-down states in the Middle East.
We need more funding for boats, dogs, and horses for border agents to hold the line at the border itself and prevent illegal immigrants from coming across in the first place.
"Even President Obama requested a stronger supplemental funding bill for the border during the crisis of Central American teens in the summer of 2014. His July 8, 2014, request to Congress included"$879 million [for ICE] would pay for detention and removal of apprehended undocumented adults traveling with children," several hundred million in funding for the State Department to "repatriate and reintegrate migrants to Central America, and $5 million in a media campaign in Central America to "Deliver the message that unaccompanied children are not given a permit to stay in the U.S.".
Republicans are now weaker on the border than Obama was in 2014.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/senate-republicans-now-weaker-border-obama-2014/
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