BORDER SECURITY Published October 28, 2022 6:00am EDT
Illegal immigration set records this year, but Democrats kept border funding flat
Money for CBP stayed the same, while ICE funding grew just a little
Peter Kasperowicz By Peter Kasperowicz | Fox News
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The Biden administration and Congress did nothing to boost funding for two key border security agencies in the last fiscal year, leaving them each at the same level as last year even as they coped with a record surge in illegal immigrants.
Final spending data released by the Treasury Department shows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which enforces immigration laws at the border and runs the U.S. Border Patrol, received no new funding to deal with the problem, which included a record number of migrant encounters over the course of the year.
In fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30, CBP spent $17.8 billion, almost exactly the same as it spent in FY21.
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