Homeland Insecurity: Biden Budget Flatlines Border Enforcement
avatar By Bob Dane June 24, 2021 1 Comment
President Joe Biden’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget calls for double-digit percentage increases in domestic spending, but there is a glaring exception: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In what Sen. Shelley Capito, R-West Virginia, calls “highly conspicuous thrift,” the administration intends to keep DHS funding flat at $52 billion, even as waves of illegal aliens continue to flow across the southern border with little or no resistance.
Last week, Rep. John Katko, R-New York, cited “alarming” early-retirement rates among frustrated Border Patrol personnel, and asked DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas if the new budget would fund more officers to bolster the thinning Green Line. Mayorkas responded: “It does not.”
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/06/24/dhs-budget-request-falls-short-immigrationreform-com/
