{"id":2000435,"date":"2023-08-14T18:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-bidens-nearly-1-billion-migrant-housing-plan\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:33:13","slug":"inside-bidens-nearly-1-billion-migrant-housing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-bidens-nearly-1-billion-migrant-housing-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s $1B Migrant Housing Plan Revealed"},"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\">12<\/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%2Finside-bidens-nearly-1-billion-migrant-housing-plan%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=2000435&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>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Free housing, medical care will \u2064only embolden illegal immigrants, former ICE officials say<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Illegal migrants walk\u2064 across \u200dthe Rio \u200cGrande River \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The White House\u2019s latest \u200bproposal aimed at fixing the border crisis is a nearly $1 billion program that provides housing, medical care, and legal services for migrants.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Final-Supplemental-Funding-Request-Letter-and-Technical-Materials.pdf\">a letter<\/a> to House Speaker Kevin \u2062McCarthy (R., Calif.), the White House said \u200bthe\u2063 requested money would be used &#8220;to continue the progress made since the\u2063 president\u2064 implemented his border\u200c enforcement and management\u2062 plan after \u200bthe Title \u200b42 public health order\u200b lifted.&#8221; That letter outlines a $759 million initiative for &#8220;community-based residential facilities \u2026 [with] medical care, legal programming, and other services through contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements with non-governmental organizations.&#8221; Any refugee, asylum\u2063 seeker, or &#8220;other migrants&#8221; would be eligible to live at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>President\u2062 Biden has presided over \u200cthe worst border crisis in U.S. \u200chistory with some five million migrants \u200ccrossing the border illegally. The crisis has \u200cleft blue cities like New York at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/08\/01\/adams-migrants-images-biden-00109223\">wit&#8217;s end<\/a>. Mayor Eric Adams warned the Biden\u2063 administration earlier this month that New York is\u200c at capacity, with\u2062 migrants sleeping on sidewalks, and asked for more financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>The new housing program is part of a broader $40.1 \u200dbillion supplementary spending package that includes arms\u2063 for Ukraine and disaster relief, as well as \u2063$4 billion for immigration-related services. Critics such as former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Thomas \u2063Homan say \u2063the program&#8217;s promise of free housing\u200b will only exacerbate\u200b the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This proposal would be extremely expensive and would serve as yet another enticement, another\u200b magnet that will bring more \u2062families to\u200c our borders which\u2064 will bring more harm \u2063to these \u2064families at the hands\u200c of criminal cartels who have\u2064 sexually assaulted thousands of women and children,&#8221; said Homan. &#8220;The U.S. homeless \u200bpopulation has exploded, and this administration\u200c wants \u2063to give this type \u200bof program to those who broke our laws rather than\u200b homeless heroes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House\u2019s proposal \u200bwill likely face roadblocks on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers have previously <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-is-hiding-how-many-illegal-immigrants-are-in-monitoring-programs\/\">scrutinized<\/a> a number of\u2064 the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s detention programs, as well as the nonprofits\u2062 it works with to implement them. In one instance, an outside partner tasked with implementing an alternative to detention programs\u200b called for the \u2063abolition of\u2063 Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have\u200d accused the Biden\u2062 administration of prioritizing &#8220;catch and release&#8221; programs rather than enforcement and deportation. The new housing proposal appears to\u200c be par for the courts\u2014enrolled migrants will be given the\u200c ability to &#8220;depart unsupervised during\u200d certain hours&#8221; without\u200c any tracking mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden administration isn&#8217;t asking Congress for \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-drone-captures-migrants-carrying-drugs-across-border-into-texas\/\" title=\"WATCH: Drone Captures Migrants Carrying Drugs Across Border into Texas\">actual border security<\/a> \u200dor enforcement \u2064funding but instead seeks to \u2064create \u200ba taxpayer-funded \u2062shelter system rather\u200d than true custodial detention,&#8221; said former senior\u2063 executive\u200d and \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grand-scale-tens-of-thousands-of-illegal-aliens-being-released-into-u-s-ex-ice-official-says\/\" title=\"\u2018Grand Scale\u2019: Tens Of Thousands Of Illegal Aliens Being Released Into U.S., Ex-ICE Official Says\">field office director<\/a> at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement John Fabbricatore.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the &#8220;community-based residential facilities&#8221; program said Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking to repurpose\u200b two unaccompanied children shelters\u200b in Pecos and Carrizo Springs, \u200bTexas, \u2063that are run by a contractor \u200dcalled Endeavors. House Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/republicans-dive-into-biden-ice-border-contracts\">launched<\/a> an investigation into that firm earlier this month after a former Biden transition\u2062 official was caught on video admitting that\u2064 he funneled government contracts to\u200d nonprofits such as Endeavors, where he previously worked, despite\u200c their lack of industry\u200b experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to enforce U.S. immigration law, and to remove individuals and\u2064 families without a legal basis to stay,&#8221; \u200ba \u2062Department of Homeland Security spokesman told the\u200d <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;As numbers fluctuate, this \u2064Administration is committed to treating families humanely as we process \u200bthem for expedited removal. This supplemental package will allow DHS\u200c to fund temporary\u200b housing facilities and services to manage families through \u2064the\u200b immigration process quickly, and facilitate their removal for those who do not have \u200da legal\u2064 basis\u2064 to stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The language \u200cused by the White House in its funding request is also raising\u200d eyebrows. Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement is chiefly tasked with the detainment\u200d and \u200dremoval of illegal aliens, under President\u2063 Joe Biden\u2019s request, ICE would be able to \u200cuse any amount\u200c of its funds for housing rather than law enforcement. At the discretion of DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas, &#8220;any noncitizen may be housed in the community-based residential facilities,&#8221; the funding request states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is \u2062a\u2062 brazen attempt to\u200c pivot\u200c ICE \u200dfunding away from law enforcement and detention, which are \u2064critical components \u2064of the \u2063agency&#8217;s core mission,&#8221; said Fabbricatore, who now serves\u2064 on the board of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement. &#8220;Efforts \u200blike this are also being driven by people inside the agency who were tapped by\u2064 Secretary Mayorkas to abolish ICE from within.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans have already objected to Biden\u2019s supplemental funding request on the grounds that \u2064it groups disparate issues, such as the war in Ukraine, with border security. Republican senator Marco Rubio (Fla.) \u2062said &#8220;Biden is holding Floridians hostage, and other Americans hostage, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-bidens-nearly-1-billion-migrant-housing-plan\/\" title=\"Biden's B Migrant Housing Plan Revealed\">tying critical domestic\u2063 disaster relief<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-reasons-bidens-latest-billion-dollar-request-is-a-hard-pill-to-swallow-for-gop\/\" title=\"GOP finds Biden's billion-dollar request hard to accept for three reasons.\">foreign \u2062military aid<\/a>.&#8221;\u2064 Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance1\/status\/1690012829590454274?s=20\">said<\/a> that although he\u2062 and Rubio &#8220;don\u2019t always\u2062 agree \u200con Ukraine policy,&#8221; his comments were &#8220;absolutely right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the House, Republicans such as Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) have taken a hardline position against any more money for the Department of Homeland\u2062 Security. \u2063Roy earlier this month circulated a letter to House Republicans objecting to any budget deal that did not include more money for border security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the White House, former ICE officials argue that offering free housing and medical care to illegal immigrants will only encourage more illegal immigration. 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