Republicans in Congress are working on a border security package right now.
Fox News reports that Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee introduced a bill that would increase border patrol funding and will resume the border wall construction project started under President Trump. The Border Reinforcement Act of 2023 focuses on border security, funding, and staffing. Some separate areas, such as asylum reform and detention requirements, were approved by the Judiciary Committee last week. The Homeland Security Committee bill is hand-in-hand with the other legislation Republicans have worked on. One committee aid spoke with reporters about the bills introduction. It said it intends to fulfill House Republicans commitment to America to help secure the border and create a better country for all. Ideally, this bill will protect the American people from a flood of illegal immigrants entering the country. Fox News reports that the Biden Administration put a halt on the construction of the border wall. However, this legislation would resume the structure of that wall. The idea behind this is that there are many good reasons to consider working on getting the border wall built again. The bill requires that the Department of Homeland Security use funds already allocated for the border wall to apply those funds to the border wall as initially designed to be used in the first place. The bill will require that the government do what it already set out to do when it created the border wall proposal in the first place.
The legislation would also mandate that the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) increase its budget for 22,000 Border Patrol agents. That would rise from the approximately 19,000 Border Patrol agents serving along the border.
The Biden Administration has increased the number of Border Patrol agents. Still, the Biden Administration has worked on making sure those agents focus on processing migrants who are already in the interior of the United States. These agents are not working to prevent more migrants from entering the country. Fox reports that the bill would also grant retention bonuses for Border Patrol agents. After all, many of these agents have found that they cannot maintain certain morale levels. They have been beaten down repeatedly by their job, and it has become a major struggle to retain these individuals amid the bashing that they take by the liberal media and more.
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