$44 Billion on Border Enforcement

The federal government will spend $44 billion on immigration enforcement this year and next, including the creation of a mammoth new “virtual fence” along the Southwest border, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee for Homeland Security told Republican leaders Tuesday.

With pivotal November midterm elections just two months away, Republicans and Democrats vied to show they are tougher than the other party when it comes to undocumented immigration. The results so far show that while a broad overhaul of immigration law is dead for the year, both parties retain a large appetite to spend heavily on tightening enforcement of current law. Click here.

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