The Biden administration is privately soliciting $3 billion from Congress to cover the anticipated rising cost of responding to illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a new report.
Senior Homeland Security officials recently asked the White House Office of Management and Budget for the emergency money just weeks before the Biden administration must stop expelling illegal immigrants back to Mexico, according to an NBC News report Friday. The White House signed off on the ask and sent it to lawmakers on Capitol Hill for approval.
But Republicans could prevent the DHS from getting the money that it wants — despite Democrats saying it would go to responding to the border crisis. Historically, Republicans have traded improvements in physical border security infrastructure or tightening of immigration policies with Democrats.
The U.S. government has spent an unknown amount of money over the past two years reimbursing nonprofit organizations up and down the southern border for costs accrued while caring for the more than 1.5 million people who were released by Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement rather than being expelled at the border.
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In case you've forgotten what they look like, it might be a good time to take a cue from the bull and stand your ground McCarthy.
