For the last three and half years, Joe Biden’s failed Far Left Democrat open border policies have turned every community into a border community, jeopardizing the safety and security of every American and threatening our national security.
That is why today, House Republicans will bring to the floor the Fiscal Year 2025 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which provides funding to secure our Southern and Northern Borders and helps put an end to the Biden border crisis that has jeopardized the safety and security of every American.
This bill includes funding for 22,000 Border Patrol agents, $600 million in funding for the construction of the Southern Border wall, and billions in funding to remove dangerous illegal immigrants from our country.
FACTS ABOUT THE FY25 HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS BILL (Courtesy of House Appropriations Republicans):
- Secures our Southern Border by:
- Providing $600 million for the construction of the Southern Border wall.
- Forcing Secretary Mayorkas to adhere to the law and build physical barriers immediately.
- Ensuring wall funding can only be used to build physical barriers by attaching stricter conditions and shorter timelines to put the funds on contract.
- Sustaining funding for 22,000 Border Patrol agents.
- Providing $300 million for border security technology.
- Removes dangerous criminals by:
- Providing $4.1 billion for custody operations, which is more than ever previously appropriated, to fund 50,000 detention beds.
- Providing $822 million to fund transportation and removal operations for removable aliens.
- Counters Communist China and bolsters national security by:
- Providing $335 million to procure four additional Coast Guard Fast Response Cutters.
- Providing $60 million for a service life extension to enable the Coast Guard to deploy another Medium Endurance Cutter to the Indo-Pacific.
- Providing $4.2 million for increased maritime engagements with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific.
- Encouraging federal, state, local, and private sector partners to replace communications technology from companies designated as a national security risk.
- Focuses the Department on its core responsibilities by:
- Preventing the Department from carrying out its equity action plan or advancing critical race theory.
- Rejecting funding for electric vehicles and related infrastructure, saving $30 million.
- Preventing the consolidation of the Department’s Headquarters, saving $186.7 million.
- Rejecting funding requested by the Biden Administration that encourages more illegal migration, such as:
- The Shelter and Services Program for migrants, $650 million less than the Fiscal Year 2024 enacted level.
- The Case Management Pilot Program for migrants, $20 million less than the Fiscal Year 2024 enacted level.
- Eliminating the duplicative Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, saving $28.6 million from the Fiscal Year 2024 enacted level.
- Excluding the Administration’s $4.7 billion Southwest border contingency slush fund that would provide funds to process and release more aliens into the country.
- Supports American values and principles by:
- Prohibiting the government from labeling Americans’ constitutionally protected speech as “misinformation” and imposing a penalty of termination for such action.
- Prohibiting funding for providing or facilitating abortions for ICE detainees.
- Prohibiting gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy and surgery, for ICE detainees.
MAKE NO MISTAKE: Joe Biden’s failed Far Left Democrat open border policies have resulted in a historic invasion occurring at our Southern and Northern Borders. Since Biden took office, there have been over 9.6 MILLION illegal immigrant encounters nationwide, over 350 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist attempting to enter our country illegally, and an unprecedented surge in military-aged men for our foreign adversaries illegally entering our country through Biden’s wide open borders.
JOE BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS BY THE NUMBERS:
- Since Joe Biden took office:
- There have been OVER 9.7 MILLION illegal immigrant encounters nationwide.
- There have been OVER 7.9 MILLION illegal immigrant encounters at our Southern Border.
- There have been 1.8 million known gotaways who evaded U.S. Border Patrol.
- There have been more known gotaways than in the previous decade combined.
- In May, there were 170,723 illegal immigrant encounters at our Southern Border.
- This is a 185% increase from the average May under President Trump.
- May was the 39th straight month where monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher than even the highest month seen under President Trump.
- Under Biden, over 350 of these individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the Southern Border.
- So far in FY24, there have been 90 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist who have been stopped trying to enter the U.S. illegally between ports of entry at the Southern Border.
- Click HERE for details about the national security threat posed by the Biden border crisis courtesy of the House Committee on Homeland Security Republicans.
- So far in FY24, there have been a record-breaking 27,496 Communist Chinese nationals encountered at the Southwest border.
- The Biden border crisis is costing the United States approximately $150.7 billion each year.
- The burden of illegal immigration on U.S. taxpayers is both staggering and crippling with the gross cost per taxpayer at $1,156 every year.
- In May, the Committee on Homeland Security Republicans released documents showing the Biden Administration secretly flew over 400,000 illegal immigrants into the country.
- Biden’s Far Left Democrat open border policies are to blame for this historic crisis.
- There are OVER 60 instances of Joe Biden and his Administration taking actions that undermined our nation’s border security, including halting the construction of the border wall.
- In August 2022, Biden and his Administration decided to make the border crisis WORSE by formally ending former President Trump’s successful ‘Remain in Mexico’ program.”
- The Biden Administration announced on May 10, 2023, that it would allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track them.
- Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has now admitted that 40% of catch and release migrants have disappeared.
