In addition to what he lays out there. I want to highlight a few specific examples of why a shortterm budgeta continuing resolutionis problematic for the Department and for our national security. Immigration and Customs EnforcementICEcould not fund all of its current detention. antitrafficking. and smuggling requirements under a shortterm budget. Under a shortterm budget. ICE will not have the funding they need to meet their legal mandate to have 34.000 detention beds in place for immigration detainees nor funding for a new family detention center. So for those people concerned about our border security. concerned about people coming into this country. why would we want to deny funding to address efforts to interdict people coming across the border. to interdict surveillance efforts. to build a new family detention center so we can find out who these people are and whether they should go back to the country they came from? It makes no sense. Under a shortterm budget. there is no funding to hire additional investigators for antitrafficking and smuggling cases to combat the influx of unaccompanied children at the southern border.
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