As part of his $40 billion emergency budget request, President Joe Biden is allegedly asking Congress to approve a housing scheme for illegal immigrants along the southern border.
According to Axios, Biden’s proposal would offer accommodation to illegal immigrants so they could come and go as they pleased while the Department of Homeland Security expedites their processing.
According to representatives, if Congress authorizes financing for the housing scheme, the administration will be able to move the illegal immigrants through the legal system in three weeks.
According to the Biden administration, a housing initiative will relieve some of the pressure on overcrowded migrant shelters near the border and allow the federal government to monitor illegal immigrants without having to detain them.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) increased its use of GPS monitoring and phone calls to check in with illegal immigrants who are seeking asylum after being released inside the United States after the administration ceased keeping them in detention facilities in 2021.
According to a DHS official who spoke to Axios, Biden’s planned housing scheme would allow illegal immigrants the ability to leave during the day before they were required to check in and spend the night at the housing facility.
“We do not view this as family detention,” the official said.
The president came under fire from the Left earlier this year when it was claimed that he was thinking of resuming the brutally criticized practice of holding immigrant families in detention. The removal of Title 42, a Trump administration public health directive that made illegal immigrants wait in Mexico while their asylum requests were processed because of the COVID pandemic, marked the president’s apparent about-face on the matter.
Under Biden, illegal immigration has continued to rise, and he is now under pressure from the Right and some members of the Left to resolve the border situation.
According to The Texas Tribune, the Biden administration cheered a temporary decline in illegal immigrant arrests in June before a 30% increase in July.
Even while the number of arrests in June was somewhat down from May, it was still higher than it had been under the Trump administration.
Just under 100,000 illegal aliens were detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in June, but that number rose to more than 130,000 in July. According to CBP data, U.S. officials detained nearly 40,000 illegal aliens in the Tucson, Arizona, sector in July alone, breaking the sector’s 15-year record.
According to POLITICO, Biden’s $40 billion emergency budget request, which is $20 billion less than he had sought for Ukraine, includes $4 billion to solve the border situation.