{"id":576870,"date":"2021-06-29T19:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576870"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:35:25","slug":"house-democrats-propose-defunding-immigration-enforcement-agencies-amid-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-propose-defunding-immigration-enforcement-agencies-amid-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Propose Defunding Immigration Enforcement Agencies Amid Border Crisis"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fhouse-democrats-propose-defunding-immigration-enforcement-agencies-amid-border-crisis%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=576870&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>House Democrats proposed a new spending bill that would cut funding to immigration enforcement agencies and rescind funds allocated to the border wall.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/AP\/AP15\/20210630\/112871\/BILLS-117-SC-AP-FY2022-HSecurity-AppropsHomelanddraftbillFY2022.pdf\"><u>bill<\/u><\/a>, which makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), allocates $14.1 billion in net funding to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), $927 million less than the previous year\u2019s budget, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/appropriations-committee-releases-fiscal-year-2022-homeland-security-funding\"><u>press release<\/u><\/a> from the House Committee on Appropriations. The bill also rescinds $2.1 billion in funds from last year intended to go towards the border wall, and provides Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with $1.55 million less than the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Both CBP and ICE funding totals are below what the Biden administration had requested. The bill also provides no additional funding for Border Patrol agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when there is an out-of-control situation at our border, we need to support our border enforcement officers, not defund them,\u201d House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cHouse Democrats are now applying their socialist ideology to defund the police to the border by advancing legislation to defund our border and immigration enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The budget cuts come during an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/08\/department-of-justice-illegal-immigration-immigration-courts\/\"><u>influx<\/u><\/a> of illegal immigration to the U.S., with border encounters reaching a two-decade high in May, according to CBP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-announces-may-2021-operational-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7226491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7226491\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7226491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Young migrants wait for processing inside the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility. (Photo by DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7226491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young migrants wait for processing inside the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility. (Photo by DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Republican lawmakers have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/20\/56-house-republicans-joe-biden-fire-kamala-harris-border-crisis-leadership\/\"><u>criticized<\/u><\/a> the Biden administration\u2019s response to the border crisis, pointing to its inaction. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/26\/joe-biden-kamala-harris-brandon-judd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Nobody Has Done More To Enrich Organized Crime\u2019: Border Patrol Union President Criticizes Biden On Border Security)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the urgent need to secure our border, the crisis has been ignored by the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>The measure includes funding for migrant processing and detention, with $170 million allocated for construction of \u201cintegrated migrant processing centers\u201d and $23 million for migrant processing improvements and child care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continue to have serious concerns regarding the physical and mental wellbeing of individuals, particularly children, at border facilities,\u201d Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro said in a statement. \u201cWe must do more to protect immigrants, especially children and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill also increases funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, adding almost $400 million from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs recent events like the Colonial Pipeline hack have demonstrated, it is obvious that we must do more to secure our nation\u2019s cyber infrastructure,\u201d DeLauro said. \u201cThat\u2019s why this bill\u2019s investments in preventing cyber attacks and rooting out cyber intrusions are so critical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill is set to be debated in the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday.<\/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>House Democrats proposed a new spending bill that would cut funding to immigration enforcement agencies and rescind funds allocated to the border wall.The bill, which makes appropriations for the Department &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313692,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Democrats Propose Defunding Immigration Enforcement Agencies Amid Border Crisis","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/migrantprocessing-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Democrats Propose Defunding Immigration Enforcement Agencies Amid Border Crisis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576870","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}