Joe Biden’s 2023 Border Budget: More Money for Migrants; Biden budget would provide $7.3 BILLION to deal with refugees crossing the border – but only allocates enough for 350 extra border guards and $40 million to combat fentanyl trafficking

Joe Biden’s 2023 Border Budget: More Money for Migrants:

President Joe Biden’s budget asks for more money to help deliver more legal, quasi-legal, and illegal migrants into the jobs and homes needed by Americans.

Biden’s budget asks for money to hire 500 extra border guards who catch migrants — and money to hire 460 more people to release the migrants so they can travel to jobs and housing.

The Democrats’ budget asks for a $4.7 billion “contingency fund” to operate the existing network of non-profit groups, shelters, training courses, travel routes, and healthcare checks which get low-wage migrants into the jobs that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.

The budget requests extra money to convert illegal migrants into legal residents — but asks for less money to comply with the legal requirement of detaining illegal migrants before they reach U.S. jobs.

Biden’s budget also asks for $4 billion for the Department of State so it can keep funding the foreign groups that help migrants travel from around the world into Latin America and then up to the border.

The budget also asks Congress for funds to bring in another 125,000 migrants for Americans’ jobs and homes, although the extra migrants will expand inflation and further reduce wages. —>READ MORE HERE

Biden budget would provide $7.3 BILLION to deal with refugees crossing the border – but only allocates enough for 350 extra border guards and $40 million to combat fentanyl trafficking:

President Joe Biden’s budget provides $7.3 billion for refugees but only funds an additional 350 border patrol agents to deal with a surge in migrants illegally crossing the northern and southern borders.

Biden’s $6.8 trillion plan, which he unveiled on Thursday, makes clear his priorities heading into the next fiscal year.

Included in his plan to hike taxes on the wealthy and corporations to pay for a plethora of social programs is the money for migrants and a mere $40 million to combat fentanyl trafficking, a growing issue of concern for Americans.

US deaths from fentanyl have been on the rise since the 2010s, spiking during Covid-19 and continuing to rise under the Biden presidency. In 2022, 107,000 Americans died of overdose.

But, in a nod to Republicans’ call for more border enforcement – an issue they are expected to hammer Biden on in the 2024 election – the president does include funding to fight illegal immigration.

The president’s proposal outlines $7.3 billion in funding to the Office of Refugee Resettlement to help respond to the needs of unaccompanied children crossing the border or other humanitarian entrants who need assistance.

His proposal also allocates nearly $25 billion to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s only an $800 million increase over the 2023 budget level.

The increased funding comes as Biden administration officials have said they are expecting a surge in migrants crossing the border illegally once Title 42 is lifted on May 11. The pandemic policy, enacted during Donald Trump’s presidency, allowed migrants to be returned across the border swiftly. —>READ MORE HERE

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