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“This deal means millions of good paying jobs (WITH NO E-VERIFY) and fewer burdens felt at the kitchen table and across the country and safer and healthier communities, but it also signals to ourselves and to the world that American democracy can deliver,” the president said, adding that it’s “a huge day” for one half of his economic agenda - the American Jobs Plan.
Biden: Infrastructure Deal ‘Represents the Largest Investment in Public Transit in American History’
(CNSNews.com) – President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he has reached a $1.2 trillion bipartisan deal on an infrastructure package that includes $7.5 billion for electric charging stations along U.S. roads – half of what he originally asked for - as well as money for broadband, replacing lead pipes, and weatherizing buildings.
“This bipartisan agreement represents the largest investment and public transit in American history, and I might add that the largest investment since the creation of Amtrak,” the president announced in the East Room of the White House.
“Let me be clear. Neither side got everything they wanted in this deal. This is what it means to compromise, and it reflects something important. It reflects consensus. The heart of democracy requires consensus. It is this time a true bipartisan effort, breaking the ice that too often has kept us frozen in place, preventing us from solving the real problems facing the American people,” he said.
“This deal means millions of good paying jobs and fewer burdens felt at the kitchen table and across the country and safer and healthier communities, but it also signals to ourselves and to the world that American democracy can deliver,” the president said, adding that it’s “a huge day” for one half of his economic agenda - the American Jobs Plan.
“It delivers clean transportation, clear water and clean water, universal broadband, clean power infrastructure and environmental resilience, and these areas invest two-thirds of the resources that I have proposed in my American Jobs Plan - two-thirds of what I called for out there, but I am getting the work of Congress right away on the other half as well - the American Family Plan,” Biden said.
“You finish the job on child care, education, economy, clean energy and tax cuts for American families and much more. For me, investment in our physical and human infrastructure are intertwined. Both make us better off and stronger. The case for these investments is clear,” the president said.
“Economists, left, right, and center, independent Wall Street forecasters, they all say that these kinds of public investments mean more jobs, more workers participating in the labor force, higher productivity, and higher growth for our economy over the long run,” he added.
Biden said that both the infrastructure deal and a Democrat reconciliation bill that includes “human infrastructure” need to get done, and he promised to work with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “to make sure that they move through promptly and in tandem.”
“Let me emphasize that - in tandem. We need physical infrastructure, but we also need the human infrastructure as well. They’re a part of my overall plan. What we agreed on today is what we could agree on – the physical infrastructure. There was no agreement on the rest,” the president said.
“We’re going to have to do that through the budget process, and we need a fair tax system to pay for it all. I’m not going to rest until both get to my desk,” he said.
“And lastly, I know that there were some of my party who discourage me from seeing an agreement with our Republican colleagues, who said that we should go bigger and go alone. To them, I say this. I’ve already shown in my young presidency that I’m prepared to do whatever needs to be done to move the country forward. That’s what I did with the American Rescue Plan, which was $1.9 trillion,” Biden said.
He promised to seek common ground working across party lines where he can, because “the broader support a proposal has in Congress, the stronger its prospect for passage.”
EXCLUSIVE: West Texas Border Sector Set to Break All-Time Apprehension Record
The Del Rio Border Patrol Sector has rarely been on the national radar for illegal immigrant apprehensions. Recently, an influx of Haitian, Venezuelan, and Central American migrants have pushed the sector to the third-highest rank for migrant apprehensions. With more than one quarter of the fiscal year remaining, the Del Rio Sector has now accounted for nearly 125,000 migrants put into custody.
The current number of apprehensions made by the Del Rio Sector is the highest in 20 years. The sector arrested more than 6,000 over the last seven days. If the pace continues, Del Rio will surpass any historical one-year record in its history.
Del Rio is in third place and slightly behind the Tucson Sector by only a few thousand migrants, according to CBP. At the current rate, Del Rio may sit only behind the Rio Grande Valley as the busiest area of the southwest border by the end of the reporting period.
At the Del Rio Station, where mostly Haitian and Venezuelan migrants have chosen to cross, the uptick in traffic is nearly a 1,000 percent jump over all of 2020’s figures. Recently, ICE Air Operations began flying Haitian and Venezuelan migrants to the interior of the United States to relieve overcrowding. The move also reduces the burden to the small community attempting to deal with large numbers of migrant releases.
Although the sector is receiving some support in the form of detailed Border Patrol agents from the northern border stations, the surge is still overwhelming. Processing and providing humanitarian care to the vulnerable population of migrants means less agents actually on patrol.
The traffic has frustrated residents and ranchers who are concerned about migrant releases and property damage caused by those looking to avoid apprehension. Local law enforcement agencies are encountering human traffickers on highways at a pace not seen in nearly two decades.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
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