Yesterday Joe Biden unveiled his proposal for the federal 2023 Fiscal Year budget, a budget that tops out at $5.8 trillion. Included is an increase for the Department of Homeland Security of 5.4 percent over what the Department spent in 2021. Specifically, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will receive $15.3 billion, compared with $15 billion in 2021, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will receive $8.1 billion, from $8 billion in 2021.
That sounds (relatively) good, until you look at the priorities of those agencies, which are pivoting from enforcement to management.
The Hill quotes RJ Hauman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform: “At this point, they might as well change the name of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to U.S. Customs and Border Processing.”
Consider, for example, the allocation of funds for immigration lawyers to help illegals fight deportation. Breitbart says, “Specifically, the budget would spend $150 million in taxpayer money to fund ‘new resources in legal access programming’ for border crossers and illegal aliens.” In addition, the Budget would allocate $4.5 billion over a 10-year period to make the immigration “system fairer and more equitable.”
The additional funding will help finance a new government program, announced in January, called “Legal Access at the Border (LAB)” to help prepare migrants for the immigration legal process. That program in turn melds with another part of the overall plan, which is the creation of “European-style reception centers” to function as nothing more than welcome centers to start the New Americans off right in their new country. Those centers will, according to Breitbart, provide illegal aliens with “medical services, legal advice, and educational programs.”
All in all, the Biden plan, in addition to filling the immigration lawyers’ coffers, will “transform the southern border into a mere checkpoint for foreign nationals seeking entry to the U.S.” [Emphasis added.]
For more, see Breitbart.
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