{"id":1555116,"date":"2022-07-14T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555116"},"modified":"2022-07-14T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:35:20","slug":"catch-and-release-democratic-texas-rep-explain-why-its-so-hard-to-fix-ices-dire-funding-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catch-and-release-democratic-texas-rep-explain-why-its-so-hard-to-fix-ices-dire-funding-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Catch And Release\u2019: Democratic Texas Rep Explain Why It\u2019s So Hard To Fix ICE\u2019s Dire Funding Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcatch-and-release-democratic-texas-rep-explain-why-its-so-hard-to-fix-ices-dire-funding-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555116&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar explained the difficulties Congress is facing when deliberating how to fix Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s (ICE) dire need for funding in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>ICE is set to run out of funding before October, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/14\/ice-immigration-spending-border-budget?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossneakpeek&#038;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>, citing three sources familiar with the situation. Cuellar, a member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Appropriations, said that the subcommittee is weighing potential solutions to the issue, but may face difficulty agreeing on ICE\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot take away from the core mission of ICE and if part of it is for removal, then you gotta have that. If part of the mission is for detention, then you got to have that funding. Usually the big fights at the very end is going to be how many detention beds are we going to have, and every year that\u2019s a debate between Democrats or Republicans,\u201d Cuellar told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would have to step in to address the issue with funding pulled from other taxpayer funded agencies. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/11\/ice-deportations-joe-biden-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Sanctuary Country\u2019: ICE Deportations, Arrests See Dramatic Drop Under Biden)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the big driver is going to be just the large number of people coming to the border. And part of those costs are going to be transportation costs increases, among other things,\u201d Cuellar said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7465768\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7465768\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7465768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-05-23T140841Z_1820382909_RC22DU92KLYK_RTRMADP_3_USA-IMMIGRATION-BORDER-scaled-e1657036244214.jpg\" alt=\"REUTERS\/Marco Bello\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-05-23T140841Z_1820382909_RC22DU92KLYK_RTRMADP_3_USA-IMMIGRATION-BORDER-scaled-e1657036244214.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-05-23T140841Z_1820382909_RC22DU92KLYK_RTRMADP_3_USA-IMMIGRATION-BORDER-scaled-e1657036244214-282x120.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-05-23T140841Z_1820382909_RC22DU92KLYK_RTRMADP_3_USA-IMMIGRATION-BORDER-scaled-e1657036244214-620x265-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-05-23T140841Z_1820382909_RC22DU92KLYK_RTRMADP_3_USA-IMMIGRATION-BORDER-scaled-e1657036244214-768x328-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-05-23T140841Z_1820382909_RC22DU92KLYK_RTRMADP_3_USA-IMMIGRATION-BORDER-scaled-e1657036244214-1536x656-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-05-23T140841Z_1820382909_RC22DU92KLYK_RTRMADP_3_USA-IMMIGRATION-BORDER-scaled-e1657036244214-2048x875-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7465768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asylum-seeking migrants from Venezuela board a Customs and Border Patrol transport van after crossing the Rio Grande in Del Rio, Texas, U.S. May 23, 2022. REUTERS\/Marco Bello<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The funding crisis comes at a critical time as migrants surge in record numbers across the U.S.-Mexico border. In May, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered a record 239,416 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/09\/migrants-biden-border-houston-dallas-la\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">migrants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/news\/releases\/2021\/021821_civil-immigration-enforcement_interim-guidance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">limited<\/a> ICE\u2019s priorities to arrest only the greatest threats to national security, public safety and border security. The order was lifted by a federal judge in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/immigration-biden-administration-halts-limits-on-immigration-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m one of the few that feel that you got to have sufficient detention beds. And I do look for alternatives to monitoring and all that but there are some people you don\u2019t want to put on a monitor. And I certainly do not believe in catch and release. You cannot have catch and release. And, therefore, you gotta have sufficient funding for detention beds, especially for the ones that are not supposed to be released in the streets,\u201d Cuellar added.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly $100 million is expected to be pulled from the U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s budget to meet ICE\u2019s funding needs, while an additional $80 million will be allocated from existing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/12\/ice-abortion-transport-pregnant-migrant-women-state-lines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICE<\/a>\u00a0funding, according to Axios.<\/p>\n<p>But Cuellar said he doesn\u2019t support taking funding from the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the big fights that we\u2019ll see is how many detention beds are we going to put. That was a question that the appropriations [subcommittee] always struggles between,\u201d Cuellar said.<\/p>\n<p>ICE didn\u2019t respond to the DCNF\u2019s request. The subcommittee also didn\u2019t respond to the DCNF\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Big fights&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}