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Not About the Wall: Democrats are Rejecting a Long List of Other Border Security Measures to Spite Trump
While the talking point is about stopping President Trump's wall, Democrats are actually rejecting a long list of border security measures laid out by the White House.
Last week, Office of Budget and Management Acting Director Russell Vought sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee outlining requirements for an adequate funding bill.
"Appropriations bills for fiscal year (FY) 2019 that have already been considered by the current and previous Congress are inadequate to fully address these critical issues. Any agreement for the current year should satisfy the following priorities," the letter states. "The President requests at least $563 million for 75 additional Immigration Judges and support staff to reduce the backlog of pending immigration cases."
The current backlog for asylum claims made at the border is 800,000 cases. According to the Department of Homeland Security, asylum claims have increased by 2000 percent over the past five years and approximately 90 percent of them are thrown out in court. President Trump has also requested additional funding for 750 new Border Patrol Agents and $571 million for 2,000 additional Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents to help "address gang violence, smuggling and trafficking, and the spread of drugs in our communities."
Meanwhile, President Trump is specifically providing more resources on requests Democrats have been making. They are the following:
-Detention Beds, ICE: The President requests $4.2 billion to support 52,000 detention beds.
-Humanitarian needs: The President requests an additional $800 million to address urgent humanitarian needs. This includes additional funding for enhanced medical support, transportation, consumable supplies appropriate for the population, and additional temporary facilities for processing and short-term custody of this vulnerable popilation, which are necessary to ensure the well-being of those taken into custody.
-Counter-narcotics/weapons technology: $675 million would provide Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) technology at inbound lanes at U.S. Southwest Border Land Ports of ENtry (LPOE) would all CBP to deter and etect more contraband, including narcotics, weapons, and other materials that pose nuclear and radiological threats. This would reqires an increase of $631 million over the FY 2019 funding level in the Senate version of the bill.
While Democrats grandstand on the barrier, they're rejecting billions of dollars to fund a number of other essential border security operations.
"These upfront investments in physical barriers and technology, as well as legislation to close loopholes in our immigration system, will reduce illegal immigration, the flow of illicit drugs entering our country and reduce the long term costs for order and immigration enforcement activities," Vought says. "The Administration looks forward to advancing these critical priorities as part of legislation to reopen government."
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/01/11/democrats-are-rejecting-a-border-barrier-and-long-list-of-other-security-too-n2538909
SpaceX to lay off 10 percent of its workforce
SpaceX, which was founded by Elon Musk in 2002, currently has a workforce of roughly 6,000 employees.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/425023-spacex-to-lay-off-10-percent-of-its-workforce
Google sued over cover-up & payoffs in executive sexual misconduct
Board members of Alphabet, the parent company of tech giant Google, are being sued by shareholders over multi-million payouts to top executives investigated for sexual harassment at the Silicon Valley behemoth.
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in California, claims that the board failed in its duty to shareholders by approving big severance payouts to executives who left the company, while keeping details of their alleged sexual misconduct under wraps.
Among the defendants named in the lawsuit by shareholder James Martin are Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as former CEO Eric Schmidt, who were all on the board’s audit and compensation committees that approved the payouts.
https://www.rt.com/news/448615-google-sued-over-hushed-misconduct/