When We Need More Border Patrol, The Swamp Hires More IRS Agents

The “Inflation Reduction Act”

• Appropriately named, the bill allocates $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service to hire up to 87,000 new IRS officers to conduct more tax audits
• Absent from the spending spree is any additional funding to hire more staff for the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), or other agencies necessary to properly regulate immigration into the country.

In many cases, funding levels alone do not tell the whole story. How money is applied within an agency matters as well.

• ICE has an annual budget of approximately $8 billion, but is reportedly facing a $345 million shortfall and will run out of money in October unless DHS pulls resources from other agencies to make up the difference.

Housing illegal aliens was once a significant cost, but Biden has instructed ICE to emphasize alternatives to detention

• Last year immigration arrests in the U.S. interior fell to the lowest levels in more than a decade, and less than half the amount that persisted through the Trump Administration
• The situation is even worse at the Border Patrol, whose 19,536 agents are outmanned and outgunned when it comes to stopping the cartels and their seemingly endless supply of drugs and human cargo

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