{"id":1917244,"date":"2023-04-20T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-illegal-immigrant-encounters-rise-customs-and-border-protection-funding-set-to-be-cut\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:26:12","slug":"as-illegal-immigrant-encounters-rise-customs-and-border-protection-funding-set-to-be-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-illegal-immigrant-encounters-rise-customs-and-border-protection-funding-set-to-be-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"As Illegal Immigrant Encounters Rise, Customs and Border Protection Funding Set to Be Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fas-illegal-immigrant-encounters-rise-customs-and-border-protection-funding-set-to-be-cut%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=1917244&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0420\/19e86b4e-9e87-462d-9dd1-b8280cb231b9\/audio.mp3?length=3053997&#038;duration=254\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans had some harsh words for President Joe Biden as they tried to understand why his FY 2024 budget proposal for Customs and Border Protection is less than the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Congressional Budget Justification for the Department of Homeland Security, the FY 2024 CBP budget is $19.5 billion. This is down from $20.8 billion in FY 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. John Rutherford (R-Fla.) said the president\u2019s proposal was full of \u201cgimmicks\u201d that indicated he is not serious about border security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we funded the CBP at the requested levels, the border would be less secure,\u201d Rutherford said.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Congressman was speaking to Troy Miller, Acting CBP Commissioner, who was testifying before the Subcommittee on Homeland Security on the \u201cFiscal Year 2024 Request for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4931025\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/12\/18\/el-paso-texas-1200x800.jpeg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Illegal immigrants wait to enter a shelter at the Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, on Dec. 17, 2022. (John Moore\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.) said that figures he had seen from the Department of Homeland Security show record-high encounters with illegal immigrants, 257,000 last month alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that clearly, we are seeing a humanitarian crisis along the southwest border,\u201d Guest said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Guest, the CBP is getting a 7.5 percent budget cut in the face of this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould this not be one of the agencies that Congress should invest and invest robustly in?\u201d Guest asked.<\/p>\n<p>Committee members asked Miller how the agency would deal with the expected surge of illegal immigrants after May 11. That is the day Title 42, a World War II-era immigration policy invoked by the Trump administration, ends.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3682532\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/02\/02\/GettyImages-1230936271-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> President Joe Biden signs executive orders related to immigration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 2, 2021. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Title 42 allowed CBP to immediately process illegals for deportation to prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>That day, the Biden administration will revert to Title 8 policy which calls for CBP to process illegal immigrants and consider any asylum requests they might make. The number of people attempting to enter the country illegally is expected to jump from around 6,000 per day to an expected 18,000 or more.<\/p>\n<p>According to Miller, CBP hired approximately 1,100 processing coordinators and plans to bring 500 more. It is finalizing transportation contracts to move the illegal immigrants and has contacted Panama and Columbia about slowing people\u2019s progress before they make it to the U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>CBP is requesting $16.5 billion in net discretionary funding, including $34 million, to promote the health and well-being of agents under tremendous stress.<\/p>\n<p>This includes childcare facilities for illegal migrant families, medical care for illegal migrants and CBP personnel, and mental health care for agents and other CBP personnel when needed. Miller said CBP management is also instituting training to ensure agents who need help will seek it, knowing that it won\u2019t negatively<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans had some harsh words for President Joe Biden as they tried to understand why his FY 2024 budget proposal for Customs and Border Protection is less than the previous year. According to the Congressional Budget Justification for the Department of Homeland Security, the FY 2024 CBP budget is $19.5 billion. 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