DHS wants $2 billion from Congress to deal with a migrant surge expected when Covid restrictions end, money Republicans may not be willing to approve.
Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty Images fileAs the Biden administration braces for the record number of migrants crossing the southern border daily to rise still more when Covid restrictions end this month, the Department of Homeland Security wants more than $2 billion from Congress to fight the surge, money Republicans may not be willing to approve.
Three senior DHS officials familiar with the planning say DHS has sent a request of roughly $2 billion to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, which will now have to decide to deny the request or ask Congress for more money. The money comes on top of the president’s budget requests as part of a fiscal year 2023 technical assistance package.
Republicans have been reluctant to approve additional funding for the Democratic administration’s border efforts, saying they want the border secured before more money is spent.Covid-19 restrictions known as Title 42 have kept migrants from claiming asylum more than 2.4 million times since the policy began under former President Donald Trump in 2020. A federal judge has ruled that the policy must lift on Dec. 21; several Republican states have sued to keep it in place.
The number of undocumented crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border is already near record highs, at 7,500 to 8,000 a day.Migrants cross the street in Piedras Negras, Mexico, on Nov. 16.The number of attempted crossings is projected to increase by as much as 2,500 a day when the Covid ban ends, DHS officials said, and itAnd when the ban ends, instead of being sent back across the border, more migrants will have the chance to stay in the U.S. and claim asylum.
Without more space in border processing centers, the facilities could get overcrowded, just as they did in 2019, when migrants said they were being held in spaces
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