A group of Senate Democrats are seeking to prevent the Trump administration from unilaterally moving appropriations around to fund immigration detention and border enforcement operations.
As Congress prepares for its annual round of budget negotiations, a large contingent of Senate Democrats are seeking to impose more oversight on the Department of Homeland Security’s budget to prevent the Trump administration from unilaterally moving appropriations around to fund immigration detention and border enforcement operations.
For example, the DHS appropriations bill signed by President Trump for fiscal year 2019 included a clear directive for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to reduce its daily population of detained immigrants from 49,060 to 40,520 by the end of the current fiscal year. Despite this, the senators note, ICE has proceeded to expand its long-term detention capacity, reaching a record high of 55,220 daily detainees by mid-August — “just six weeks before its deadline to ramp down to 40,520.
Story continuesCongress had designated nearly $1.3 billion for DHS for the purpose of improving conditions at CBP facilities on the border. “The administration’s disregard for congressional intent should trouble us all,” reads the letter sent Friday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
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