Surprise: Amid Crisis, Denialist House Dems Propose...Slashing US Border Enforcement Budget

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Democrats are the party that always wants to increase government spending on virtually everything.
59% : It also surpasses preliminary data from CBP that was reported on by Axios earlier this week.
59% : Five months into President Joe Biden's time in office, the surge of unaccompanied children coming across the southern border shows no signs of slowing.
57% : CBP would get $14.1 billion in net discretionary appropriations, almost a billion dollars less than the current fiscal year and a half-billion dollars less than the White House requested, under the draft fiscal 2022 homeland security appropriations bill.
51% : Approximately 2,000 more children were either found at the border, transferred from Border Patrol to HHS, or released into the country that day.
50% : More than 500 children were encountered daily by Border Patrol through much of March and April.
49% : And this (the fiscal year began weeks before Biden's election, an event that triggered a massive surge in illegal immigration):
49% : Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, House Democrats marked up a bill this week that would reduce funding for border enforcement - in the middle of the crisis detailed above, and on the heels of the White House forcing out the leader of CBP for political reasons:
48% : "We've long known that Democrats want to defund the police - now House Democrats will mark up a bill...in the House Appropriations Committee that defunds U.S. Customs & Border Protection and Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
43% : But three areas where they seem eager to make actual cuts and real reductions are on defense, law enforcement, and border protection.
41% : Measure would rescind more than $2 billion from prior year appropriations for border barrier construction; it proposes no funding for additional Border Patrol agents or the border wall...
39% : They've already loosened enforcement in major ways, including allowing illegal immigrants "freebie" additional crimes (drunk driving, simple assault) for which they won't be deported.
31% : They've been denying the existence of a crisis at the Southern border for months now, chasing after "root causes" abroad, while ignoring statements from foreign leaders and illegal immigrants themselves citing the Biden administration's policies and rhetoric as the top factor at play.

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