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Senate passed the bill by a vote of 68-32, so it was certainly bi-partisan. The House ignored it.
Additional U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are added
Authorization for the National Guard to be deployed to the Southwest border for the following purposes:
(1) to construct fencing, including double-layer and triple-layer fencing;
(2) to increase ground-based mobile surveillance systems;
(3) to deploy additional unarmed, unmanned aerial systems and manned aircraft sufficient to maintain continuous surveillance of the Southern Border;
(4) to deploy and provide capability for radio communications interoperability between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies;
(5) to construct checkpoints along the Southern border to bridge the gap to long-term permanent checkpoints; and
(6) to provide assistance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, particularly in rural,high-trafficked areas, as designated by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Authorizes and funds border crossing prosecutions and related court costs in the Tucson Sector at a level sufficient to increase the average number of prosecutions from 70 a day to 210 a day ($50 million from the $3 billion Border Security Fund). It also provides increased funding for Operation Stonegarden to assist state and local law enforcement to help prevent illegal activity along the border.
Provides additional funding for additional border patrol stations and forward operating bases to interdict individuals entering the United States unlawfully immediately after such individuals cross the Southern border and to provide full operational support in rural, high-trafficked areas.
Provides funding for vital radio communications and interoperability between CBP -Office of Border Patrol and state, local, and tribal law enforcement to assist in apprehension efforts along the border.
And yet, if you're a Mexican and present your proper ID at any border crossing - you're IN! Who's going to make you return?
Senate passed the bill by a vote of 68-32, so it was certainly bi-partisan. The House ignored it.
Additional U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are added
Authorization for the National Guard to be deployed to the Southwest border for the following purposes:
(1) to construct fencing, including double-layer and triple-layer fencing;
(2) to increase ground-based mobile surveillance systems;
(3) to deploy additional unarmed, unmanned aerial systems and manned aircraft sufficient to maintain continuous surveillance of the Southern Border;
(4) to deploy and provide capability for radio communications interoperability between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies;
(5) to construct checkpoints along the Southern border to bridge the gap to long-term permanent checkpoints; and
(6) to provide assistance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, particularly in rural,high-trafficked areas, as designated by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Authorizes and funds border crossing prosecutions and related court costs in the Tucson Sector at a level sufficient to increase the average number of prosecutions from 70 a day to 210 a day ($50 million from the $3 billion Border Security Fund). It also provides increased funding for Operation Stonegarden to assist state and local law enforcement to help prevent illegal activity along the border.
Provides additional funding for additional border patrol stations and forward operating bases to interdict individuals entering the United States unlawfully immediately after such individuals cross the Southern border and to provide full operational support in rural, high-trafficked areas.
Provides funding for vital radio communications and interoperability between CBP -Office of Border Patrol and state, local, and tribal law enforcement to assist in apprehension efforts along the border.
That isn't going to stop anybody with a torch. Unless you have a wall that is several feet of concrete reinforced with rebar it isn't going to do anything.
& bear in mind that a lot of the funding going to Mexico is for the antinarcotic effort - see Mexico | ForeignAssistance.gov
$134.66 million is budgeted for FY2017, $43.44 M (33%) budgeted for Peace & Security. 76% of the P&S budget is scheduled for counter narcotics, 11% to transnational crime, 10% to Stabilization Operations & Security Sector Reform.
OMG do not put so much TRUTH in one thread -- they trumpttes can't handle that-- So Hillary voted for a wall and Feds paying for it-- during Obamas' watch amazing!
The great wall didn't keep the mongols out of China!
Yah, them debbil Ming Dynasty entertainment industry moguls (knocking shops, caravanserais, noodle shops, bars, dancing girls, bears, the music trades, etc.) probably kept on hiring them Mongols without checking their ID nor credentials. & look what it got them ...
If memory serves, that bill was talked to death. If memory serves a big hang up was the path to citizenship and delaying making E-verify the law of the land until after the path to citizenship was approved. If memory serves another sticking point was the complete lack of accountability for those here who have violated employment laws and committed tax fraud. This bill was talked to death with neither side budging. That is if this is the bill the so-called gang of 8 came up with. If so than it was stuffed with pork spending and the majority of the bill did nothing to address actual immigration reform. It was a thinly disguised amnesty plan.
I know things got passed under Democrats that allowed not Americans but illegals to get away with three incidents of Felony document fraud.
OMG do not put so much TRUTH in one thread -- they trumpttes can't handle that-- So Hillary voted for a wall and Feds paying for it-- during Obamas' watch amazing!
So she must still support border walls and enforcement? Crickets, but everyone knows the answer to that.
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