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  • February 14, 2024
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He US Immigration and Customs Enforcement developed plans for release thousands of immigrants due to lack of funds after refusal in the statement border billThe newspaper reported this

He US Immigration and Customs Enforcement developed plans for release thousands of immigrants due to lack of funds after refusal in the statement border billThe newspaper reported this on Wednesday. Washington Post.

The bill, which Republican lawmakers opposed a few days ago, would eliminate a budget deficit of $700 million and its failure would mean that the United States would reduce its ability to hold detainees.

So he points out Washington Post Citing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sources, after the law’s failure, ICE officials began circulating an internal money-saving proposal that would mean release of “thousands of detainees” and reducing the capacity of pre-trial detention centers from 38 thousand to 22 thousand beds.

Some cost savings will be achieved by deportation although much of this will be reduced through “mass releases of detainees”, they said mail officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal matters.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on which ICE depends, could try to cover the funding gap. using money from other agencies such as the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration.

The bipartisan border bill, which Republican lawmakers opposed last week, would have provided $6 billion in additional funding for ICE enforcement operations.

On Wednesday last week, the US Senate rejected a pact between a group of Democratic and Republican senators with the White House to limit migration on the southern border in exchange for military aid to Ukraine.

The bill, which took months to debate and proposed changes to U.S. asylum laws, fell short of the 60 votes needed for debate: 50 votes against and 49 in favor.

Criticism of the former president Donald Trump (2017-2021), a favorite for the Republican presidential nomination, the agreement mobilized a majority of Republicans to vote against it, even though the text includes immigration restrictions that conservatives have asked for for years.

The rejected text gave the executive branch the power to block asylum requests at the border as there were 4,000 daily arrests of people crossing the border irregularly for seven straight days.

That in turn would force the federal government to bar people who cross the border illegally from seeking protection as more than 8,500 arrests were recorded in a single day.

The agreement also proposed permanently changing U.S. immigration laws to tighten the requirements needed to apply for asylum.

In this context, the US lower house on Tuesday approved the impeachment procedure (“impeachment”) Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkasfor managing the border with Mexico.

Alejandro Mayorkas, US Secretary of Homeland Security. | Photo: Reuters.

After a failed vote on February 6, that House, now with a Republican majority, approved the process.

Mayorkas, US President Joe Biden’s immigration chief, has been charged with… “violation of public trust” and “systematic and deliberate failure to comply with the law”but the Democratic-controlled Senate has the final say.

(according to information from EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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