A doomsday clock has begun ticking for key Department of Homeland Security operations
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At the border, DHS won’t have the funds to add agents, and there will be fewer arrests, detentions and deportations. Cities will have to pay to house and feed migrants.

An NBC report summarizes the potential consequences on ICE and CBP of the Republicans’ recent (extremely wild) move of killing the harsh border provisions they themselves demanded be included in the supplemental security funding bill. The most unfortunate consequence here is that this takes away $1.4 billion that was to be allocated to cities like Boston, LA, Denver, New York, and Chicago that have been receiving large numbers of newly arriving migrants.

At the same time, it would deny CBP “more than $15 billion to do things Republicans had demanded” (which, NBC fails to add, were mostly to make it even more difficult for vulnerable migrants to seek asylum in the US), and deny ICE $7.6 billion which would have, among other things, “dramatically increased detention space for migrants.”

A quick glance at those numbers is extremely revealing of what this bill’s priorities were in terms of assisting vulnerable migrants vs treating them like criminals. And this bill had whole-hearted support from Democrats.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

    • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Over the past two years, more than 250,000 migrant children have come alone to the United States. Thousands of children have ended up in punishing jobs across the country — working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories — all in violation of child labor laws, a recent Times investigation showed. After the article’s publication in February, the White House announced policy changes and a crackdown on companies that hire children.

      It’s already happening.