President Donald Trump is shown border wall prototypes in San Diego, California, on March 13, 2018. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
White House Requests $8.6 Billion for Border Wall, Clamps Down on Asylum Fraud
May 1, 2019 Updated: May 13, 2019
WASHINGTON—The White House has put $8.6 billion in its budget for a border wall for fiscal year 2020, enough money to build around 300 miles of wall on the southwest border.
WASHINGTON—The White House has put $8.6 billion in its budget for a border wall for fiscal year 2020, enough money to build around 300 miles of wall on the southwest border.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan told a House Appropriations subcommittee on April 30 that the White House is seeking $5 billion of that for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), from which he said approximately 200 miles could be built. Combined with funding from the Department of Defense, he’s hoping to get $8.6 billion to build roughly 300 miles of new wall, he said in written testimony.
“Simply put, the system is full, and we are well beyond our capacity,” he said, referring to the record number of migrants showing up at the southwest border. “This is a proven deterrent that will enhance our ability to apprehend those entering our nation illegally.”
It follows the White House’s request from last year for $5.7 billion for a border wall, of which Congress allocated only $1.4 billion. In response, President Donald Trump called a national emergency that unlocked federal funds to make up the difference, but not before causing the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.
With that money, the federal government is on track to build about 97 miles of new wall this year, with a total of 277 miles by the end of next year, according to Todd Semonite, the commanding general and chief of engineers of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Asylum Seekers
The United States is seeing a record number migrants arrive at the southern border, many of them in large groups, as families, and as unaccompanied children.
In March alone, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) counted a record 103,492 migrants. That’s up from 50,347 in 2018 and 16,794 in 2017.
Because of the large influx of people, CBP has taken on the role of a rescue agency, leaving less time and fewer resources to catch drug mules and traffickers crossing the border.
It has also stretched the budgets of the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, which cares for unaccompanied children.
McAleenan said DHS is on pace to run out of funding before the end of the year, and said he is planning to submit a supplemental appropriations request to Congress.
On average, about 16 percent of the migrants coming over the border assert they have a credible fear of persecution in their home country, which starts a lengthy legal process that can take years to complete. Claiming credible fear usually means a ticket to stay in the United States indefinitely. However, very few of them actually qualify for asylum.
Last year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) estimated that of the roughly 94,000 people who claimed credible fear only 6,000 had enough evidence to prove they qualified for asylum. That’s about 6 percent.
The White House puts that number at 12 percent.
As of November 2018, credible fear cases represented 26 percent of the backlog of removal cases, according to the DOJ.
On April 29 the White House announced a plan to clamp down on asylum fraud, calling it the “biggest loophole drawing illegal aliens to our borders.” Trump is asking the executive branch to come up with proposals on how to accomplish the following goals:
- speed up and make more efficient the process for resolving credible fear claims
- Adjudicate all asylum cases in immigration courts within roughly 6 months
- Charge fees for asylum applications and work permits
- Prevent those who entered or who attempted to enter the country illegally from receiving provisional work permits before being approved for relief
- Immediately revoke work permits for those who have already been ordered to leave the country
Separately, McAleenan said he is working on a proposal to Congress that would address what he calls the “key drivers of the immigration crisis.”
He gave little indication what would be in the proposal, but hinted it will address laws that prevent the United States from returning children to non-contiguous countries.
SOCIALISM
AND THE DEMS’ LA RAZA SUPREMACY WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS
PELOSI’S
OPEN BORDERS MEXIFORNIA where La Raza loots first!
7 OUT OF
10 ILLEGALS ON WELFARE!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/12/mexifornia-where-mexico-loots-first-7.html
What is
the true cost of all the Democrat Party’s “cheap” labor?
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JUDICIAL
WATCH:
“The
greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the
Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican
drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists
have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels
are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in
virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
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TRUMP’S CATCH AND RELEASE… all the “cheap” labor climbing our
borders, jobs and welfare lines!
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THE ENTIRE REASON TRUMP
NOMINATED KIRSTJEN NIELSEN WAS BECAUSE OF HER LONG HISTORY OF ADVOCATING OPEN
BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
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In newly confirmed federal data from the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agency, Breitbart News has learned the massive scale and
scope of DHS’s ramped up Catch and Release policy.
For months, DHS officials have said privately that the Catch and
Release program has been taken to new heights, while ICE
union officials declared this week that the program was
in “overdrive” under the direction of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. JOHN BINDER
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America
Created Just 20,000 Jobs in February...and those all went to foreign
born!
Exclusive–Mo Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More
Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of Americans’
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Consequently,
the pumping of ultra-cheap money into the financial system,
fueling speculation and parasitism, together with ever-widening
social inequality, is not a temporary measure but must be
made permanent.
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The declining living standards of
the working class are feeding directly into the retail apocalypse and
mass layoffs of retail workers will only exacerbate the issue.
Workers’ wages have seen little to
no growth in the last four decades, and any economic growth
experienced since 2008 has gone to
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“US household net worth sees
biggest fall since crisis”
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“Trump Touts
Legal Immigration System for ‘Our Corporations’ at Expense
of
American Workers “– JOHN BINDER
Trump’s shift from a
wage-boosting legal immigration system to one that benefits corporations and
their shareholders coincides with recent big business lobby influence over his
White House, at the behest of advisers Jared Kushner and Brooke Rollins.
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“Trump Abandons
‘America First’ Reforms: ‘We Need’ More Immigration to
Grow Business Profits” JOHN BINDER
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Additionally, Koch spokespeople at the donors’ conference said the
network has its sights set on pushing amnesty for millions of illegal aliens this
year.
SOCIALISM
AND THE DEMS’ LA RAZA SUPREMACY WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS
PELOSI’S
OPEN BORDERS MEXIFORNIA where La Raza loots first!
7 OUT OF
10 ILLEGALS ON WELFARE!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/12/mexifornia-where-mexico-loots-first-7.html
What is
the true cost of all the Democrat Party’s “cheap” labor?
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No Justice for Taxpaying Americans
By Howie Carr
But the real double standard kicks in when the undocumented Democrat gets to the courtroom. A taxpaying American can only dream of the kid-gloves treatment these Third World fiends get.
By Howie Carr
But the real double standard kicks in when the undocumented Democrat gets to the courtroom. A taxpaying American can only dream of the kid-gloves treatment these Third World fiends get.
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Illegal
aliens continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted
public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety
for all citizens. Arthur Schaper
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