The $95 billion foreign aid package passed by the Senate earlier this week did not include any border provisions for open US borders.
Early Tuesday, the Senate approved Schumer's supplemental aid package and allocated $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. 22 Republicans voted in favor of giving foreign countries money while ignoring the crisis at the American border.
The $95 billion package died in the House. Speaker Johnson immediately shut it down without a vote.
Now the Biden regime says ICE will likely have to release thousands of detained illegal immigrants because they will lack the funding to keep them detained.
ICE has about a negative $700 million on its budget, which it could have handled if funding had included border provisions.
This has prompted ICE leaders in high positions of power to consider releasing about 16,000 illegal immigrants in their custody for cost-cutting purposes.
This is the threat from the system. Either we fund our outrageous open border policies or we will release thousands more illegal immigrants in addition to the millions of illegal immigrants already released into the country since Joe Biden took office.
Fox News reported:
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces the risk of having to release thousands of detainees amid a budget shortfall that will persist after a border bill fails in the Senate.
ICE currently faces a $700 million budget shortfall that could have been addressed through the Senate's border bill that failed to gain traction last week, prompting agency leaders to circulate cost-saving proposals such as reducing its detention capacity and releasing… Nearly 16,000 immigrants, according to ICE. Report from The Washington Post.
According to the report, the bill would have provided $6 billion in additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, a major boost for the agency ahead of the typically busy illegal crossing window in the spring.
NEW: After the border deal failed, WaPo reports that ICE has drafted plans to mass release thousands of detainees and dramatically reduce its detention capacity from 38,000 to 22,000 because of a $700 million budget shortfall that the bill would have erased.
Border legislation…– Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 14, 2024
This will only lead to further invasion of our nation. Currently, it is estimated that approximately 11 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States. This number is increasing rapidly every day.
This number exceeds the population of 41 individual states.
The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for managing Immigration and Customs Enforcement as its supervisor.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was the first Cabinet minister to be impeached in nearly 150 years, TGP reported Tuesday.
