Paying the Price of the Immigration Crackdown – Are Americans willing to pay for the intensifying crackdown on immigrants? From: americas.irc-online.org
Tagged: border, border patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)Posted on: May 27th, 2008
The Bush administration and Congress are fueling an increasingly hard-line immigration policy with seemingly unlimited federal funding. The Department of Homeland Security, which in 2003 became the new home of both the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, is requesting a 19% increase for immigration enforcement and border control for 2009.
The requested $12.1 billion will pay for the expanding immigration-related operations of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the two principal DHS agencies that enforce immigration laws.
With its $5 billion budget, ICE pledges to “protect the American people from the illegal entry of goods and the entry of terrorists and other criminals seeking to cross our Nation’s borders.”"*
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