Illegal Immigration

"DIVISION B—BORDER SECURITY AND COMBATTING FENTANYL SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024 DIVISION C—BORDER ACT"  

"For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Personnel, 13 Army’’, $207,158,000, to remain available until December 14 31, 2024, to respond to the situation in Ukraine and for 15 related expenses:  

 For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Personnel, 5 Air Force’’, $23,302,000, to remain available until December 31, 2024, to respond to the situation in Ukraine and 7 for related expenses 

 For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Personnel, 13 Space Force’’, $4,192,000, to remain available until December 31, 2024, to respond to the situation in Ukraine 15 and for related expenses 

 For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, $4,887,581,000, to remain available until 23 December 31, 2024, to respond to the situation in Ukraine 24 and for related expenses: 

 For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $1,534,163,000, to remain available until 6 December 31, 2024, to respond to the situation in 7 Ukraine, to support improvements to the submarine indus8 trial base, and for related expenses......."

https://www.sinema.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ENSSAA01-1.pdf

 “Let me be clear: The Senate Border Bill will NOT receive a vote in the House. Here’s what the people pushing this ‘deal’ aren’t telling you: It accepts 5,000 illegal immigrants a day and gives automatic work permits to asylum recipients — a magnet for more illegal immigration,” Scalise wrote in a post on X Sunday night".

"Alongside border security, the bill includes aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. 

 Johnson has offered up a separate Israel aid bill, without border security or aid to the other countries, for the House of Representatives to consider".

 One of Biden’s campaign national co-chairs, Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), told Politico in an interview released on Sunday that she was 'not happy' over Biden’s talk about the border leading up to the text being released. While she said it would not affect her support of Biden for reelection, she did say there were several red lines that would cause her to oppose the bill, including rapid expulsion.

'It would be very hard for me to support it,' Escobar said while touting her own proposed bill regarding the border".

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2836656/three-reasons-bipartisan-border-bill-is-dead-on-arrival-in-the-house/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Pmax_USA_Policy_High-Intent-Audience-Signals&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlvW2BhDyARIsADnIe-I3cSbcBRud1NR9Mdz5aldgLONo5920U22v6kefNE8go7OHR1gkkEkaAtsOEALw_wcB#google_vignette

 "Migrant child labor benefits both under-the-table operations and global corporations, The Times found. In Los Angeles, children stitch 'Made in America' tags into J. Crew shirts. They bake dinner rolls sold at Walmart and Target, process milk used in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and help debone chicken sold at Whole Foods. As recently as the fall, middle-schoolers made Fruit of the Loom socks in Alabama. In Michigan, children make auto parts used by Ford and General Motors.

The number of unaccompanied minors entering the United States climbed to a high of 130,000 last year (2022) — three times what it was five years earlier".

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html

 "A study predicts nearly 60 percent of unaccompanied minors crossing the border have been caught by cartels and are being forced into child pornography and drug trafficking.

Over my five trips to the border, I have seen children as young as two months old being smuggled by coyotes across the Rio Grande. On my first trip to McAllen, Texas in 2021, I met a little girl who couldn’t speak because her vocal cords had been severely damaged by gang members who sexually abused her". 

https://cammack.house.gov/media/in-the-news/human-trafficking-crisis-border-coming-your-hometown#:~:text=And%20tragically%2C%20children%20making%20the,child%20pornography%20and%20drug%20trafficking.

June 2, 2023:

 "ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement) has come under increased scrutiny in the wake of reports that child labor exploitation is on the rise, including a Labor Department investigation that found more than 100 children — many of them unaccompanied minors from Guatemala — were employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses".  

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/advocates-hhs-questions-unaccompanied-migrants-child-labor-rcna87326

"In Fiscal Year 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) referred nearly 129,000 UAC (unaccompanied alien children) to HHS compared to roughly 15,000 in Fiscal Year 2020.

ORR’s (Office of Refugee Resettlement)negligence has endangered UAC.

• The ORR director couldn’t answer questions about reports that show HHS has lost contact with more than 85,000 migrant children in the past two years.
• Two-thirds of all UAC that leave HHS’s care work illegal, full time jobs, often in factories and in hazardous conditions.
• Caseworkers within ORR claim that HHS regularly ignored obvious signs of labor exploitation, such as single sponsors sponsoring multiple UAC, “hot spots” in the country where many UAC sponsors are not the children’s parents, UAC with significant debts, and direct reports of trafficking.
• “We’ve heard stories – I’ve been to the border seven or eight times – and heard the stories directly from people who are federal agents and others who’ve said it is very routine that a person was put with an older person, and then they found out that that was not even their family,” Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) said during the hearing.
• During the hearing, ORR director admitted that only slightly more than a third of UAC’s end up with a parent. 'In this fiscal year (2023), I believe 37 percent of children end up with their parent'".

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-orr-director-fails-to-answer-questions-about-85000-lost-unaccompanied-alien-children-flawed-vetting-of-sponsors-and-more%EF%BF%BC/