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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: 240B on July 11, 2017, 10:05:32 pm
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The Washington Times
By Stephen Dinan
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
House Republicans said Tuesday they’ve included $1.6 billion in funding for President Trump’s border wall in their new homeland security spending bill, setting up fight with Democrats who have vowed to block any wall funding — even if it means sending the government into a partial shutdown.
GOP leaders said the $1.6 billion fully meets Mr. Trump’s request to begin wall construction, which includes 32 miles of new border fencing in Texas, 28 miles of levee wall along the Rio Grande Valley, also in Texas, and 14 miles of replacement fence in San Diego.
The bill also adds 500 new Border Patrol agents, 1,000 more agents and officers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the interior, and provides enough money to maintain 44,000 detention beds. That’s a massive increase over the Obama years, and Trump officials said it will allow them to detain and deport illegal immigrants faster and with a higher success rate.
The GOP bill also calls for adding more than two dozen new jurisdictions to the 287(g) program which allows local police and sheriff’s deputies to be trained to enforce immigration laws.
“Keeping Americans safe by protecting our homeland is a top priority,” said Rep. John Carter, Texas Republican and chairman of the House homeland security appropriations subcommittee. “This funding bill provides the resources to begin building a wall along our southern border, enhance our existing border security infrastructure, hire more border patrol agents, and fund detention operations.”
Mr. Trump has not said how much of the 1,954-mile border he would like to see covered by fencing, but his 2018 budget called for a first down payment in the 60 miles of new barriers.
Democrats have vowed to resist the spending.
“Democrats will again draw a hard line against wasting taxpayer money to fulfill the president’s campaign applause line,” said Matthew Dennis, a spokesman for Appropriations Committee Democrats. “The purpose of the Homeland Security bill is to make communities more safe and secure, and this pointless wall does nothing to accomplish that.”
They succeeded this year, forcing Mr. Trump to back down on his call for $1 billion to be invested in barriers in 2017.
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Three percent of a new wall.
:woohoo:
(Just wait until they roll in the monthlies...)
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I thought that Mexico was going to pay for the wall.
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I thought that Mexico was going to pay for the wall.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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I thought that Mexico was going to pay for the wall.
That was what he said.
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I'm giving them a thumbs up on this. Just the news of this reaching south of the border is going to slow some wanna bees down.
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I'm giving them a thumbs up on this. Just the news of this reaching south of the border is going to slow some wanna bees down.
Seriously, although the wall fund is paltry (3% of the length of the border?) it is something, but even more of note is the funding for detention facilities to make it easier to get the detainees sent back. More efficiency there is a good thing.
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(Just wait until they roll in the monthlies...)
:silly:
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Seriously, although the wall fund is paltry (3% of the length of the border?) it is something, but even more of note is the funding for detention facilities to make it easier to get the detainees sent back. More efficiency there is a good thing.
Throw some mandatory minimum sentences at the coyotes.
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Throw some mandatory minimum sentences at the coyotes.
Be nice if there was a way to collect their assets--and put it toward more wall...
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Be nice if there was a way to collect their assets--and put it toward more wall...
It is called the IRS.
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It is called the IRS.
They only go after people who don't have health insurance.
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They only go after people who don't have health insurance.
Yeah, there is that. I was really only trying to point out there is an apparatus in place. I know it is a long shot. Turn that misguided(ness) into a guided missile.
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Yeah, there is that. I was really only trying to point out there is an apparatus in place. I know it is a long shot. Turn that misguided(ness) into a guided missile.
If the government was focused on what it should be doing to the exclusion of all else, we wouldn't be in the pickle we're in.
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1.6 billion for that?
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1.6 billion for that?
signs zee paper old man
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1.6 billion for that?
Just kidding, @Cripplecreek.
Make it law and change the b to a t.