The funding for 55 miles of new pedestrian fencing is a figure far lower than the $5.7 billion that CROOKED DONALD TRUMP. had demanded and marginally less than the $1.6 billion for 65 miles of pedestrian fencing in the bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee had passed last year.
would provide $1.7 billion more for border security, including technology at ports of entry, more officers and humanitarian aid.
The Democrats’ goal was to cut the overall number of detention beds, including those occupied by asylum seekers and people caught at the border, from its current level of around 49,000 to 34,000, the number funded during the Obama administration, Democratic aides said. That, they say, would end sweeps and roundups, and force ICE to focus on pursuing hardened criminals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/politics/shutdown-deal.html
would provide $1.7 billion more for border security, including technology at ports of entry, more officers and humanitarian aid.
The Democrats’ goal was to cut the overall number of detention beds, including those occupied by asylum seekers and people caught at the border, from its current level of around 49,000 to 34,000, the number funded during the Obama administration, Democratic aides said. That, they say, would end sweeps and roundups, and force ICE to focus on pursuing hardened criminals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/politics/shutdown-deal.html
