Congress won’t fund the one thing we need to enforce CURRENT law
Daniel Horowitz · June 21, 2019
We don’t need more “border funding†to fix a policy problem at our border, one which could be solved with the military and proper use of current law. However, we do need more funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to compensate for years of not enforcing existing law, which has created a backlog of illegal aliens, often dangerous ones, in our country with no ability to deport them. Yet, that is the one funding request Republicans refuse to push.
The border problem itself is very simple. The two problems are district court lawfare inviting millions of people to our border and the refusal of our government to treat the cartels as a national defense issue and deploy the military to hold the line at the border the way we secure parameters of other countries’ borders. None of these require funding, but policy changes. We already spend $716 billion on the military every year, much of it to secure other countries. There’s no reason we can’t secure our own border with that type of exorbitant budget.
The issue, then, is lack of interior enforcement. Thanks to endless lawfare and lack of resources, illegal aliens, including other countries’ most violent criminals and drug traffickers, remain here indefinitely. Congress addressed the lawfare in 1996 by unanimously passing a bill that ensured that any illegal immigrant caught within two years of coming here is deported immediately under “expedited removal†without any review by an immigration judge, much less a federal judge. Yet, because every administration has refused to implement that law, illegal aliens have been allowed to stay indefinitely and go through the endless lawfare system, creating a resource problem that our laws were designed to prevent.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/congress-wont-fund-one-thing-need-enforce-current-law/Wow! Really good article. I recommend reading the entire article. Most of us just can't understand why can't we abide by our laws? Why do we care about securing other people's countries when we don't secure our own?
Then we wonder about the New Border spending bill. This is Trumps very own bill. If you broke down 3.3 billion for the cost of every illlegal immigrant being detained at 100,000 a month what would it be per illegal immigrant? $2,750 dollars for every single illegal immigrant. Regardless of health.
Going to the Office of Refugee resettlement website you find what we are paying for.
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orrAnd the point isn't even what we are paying for, its that we are planning for long term illegal immigration. Why else would we need
3.3 billion for humanitarian?
