DHS officials concerned they may need up to $2 billion to deal with migrant surge at border, documents show
Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff - 3h ago
Senior Department of Homeland Security officials are concerned they will not have enough funding and resources to cover the recording-breaking number of migrants at the southern border, especially as the Centers for Disease Control prepares to lift Title 42 on Monday, according to internal planning documents reviewed by NBC News.
For now, DHS is using a $1.4 billion appropriation from Congress to handle a record level of border encounters, and is planning to reprogram funding from other parts of the agency to handle what is expected to be an even higher number after the expiration of Title 42, the public health order issued to prevent the spread of Covid that has blocked more than 1.8 million migrants from entering the U.S. from Mexico since March 2020.
But according to the internal planning documents, both Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement will only be partially covered by reprogramming, and officials are pushing the administration to ask Congress for a supplemental spending bill.
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