The CBO's scoring on this, by the way, is complete nonsense. They presumed that a $1,000 fee to apply for asylum would not lead to a significant reduction in asylum applications, or that there would be any funding from humanitarian parole applications at all. So the bill's scoring is WAY worse.
Reposted from
Nick Miroff
To put these proposed sums in context:
$50 billion for border wall? Trump spent ~$11B on wall construction during first term, enough to make it one of the most expensive federal infrastructure projects in US history.
$45 billion for ICE detention? The entire annual budget of ERO is less than $5B.
$50 billion for border wall? Trump spent ~$11B on wall construction during first term, enough to make it one of the most expensive federal infrastructure projects in US history.
$45 billion for ICE detention? The entire annual budget of ERO is less than $5B.
Comments