Trump signs $70 bn immigration funding bill
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a nearly $70 billion budget reconciliation package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through the end of Trump's presidency, with a narrow vote of 214-212 along party lines and unanimous Democratic opposition. The bill now proceeds to President Trump's desk for signature.
Progressive: Progressive-leaning outlets emphasize the narrow passage margin and warn that Congress has ceded its oversight role to the executive branch, highlighting GOP endorsement of Trump's immigration agenda following weeks of legislative delays and setbacks.
Moderate: Centrist outlets report the passage as a political victory for President Trump and GOP leadership, focusing on the narrow party-line vote and the bill's path through Senate stalls to House passage.
Conservative: Conservative-leaning outlets frame the measure as a Trump victory delivered despite Democratic obstruction and years of what they characterize as failed immigration policies, emphasizing record low illegal crossings and crime reductions attributed to Trump's border security record.
Washington, Jun 10 (AP) President Donald Trump signed a bill into law on Wednesday that gives his immigration and deportation agenda a nearly $70 billion boost for the rest of his time in the White House.The bill provides $38 billion for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and $26 billion for the Border Patrol.
An additional $5 billion would cover unforeseen costs, according to the White House.Trump signed the legislation in the Oval Office a day after House Republicans pushed the measure through by a 214-212 vote over the objections of Democrats.
His signature ended a nearly six-month fight over Department of Homeland Security funding that began with shooting deaths of deaths of two US citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, in January during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.Democrats began demanding changes to immigration enforcement after the shootings, creating an impasse - and resulting in the longest agency in history - that ultimately led Republicans to go it alone on the funding.The agencies will be funded through the next three years.
The new law front-loads routine annual funding, ensuring a virtually uninterrupted flow of money as the Trump administration seeks to deport some 1 million people per year.The legislation had become sidetracked over $1 billion for White House security, including for Trump's new ballroom, and a $1.8 billion fund to compensate his allies who claim to be victims of political prosecution.
Both proposals became politically toxic and were scrapped.The bill as passed focused exclusively on immigration enforcement, a topic that Republicans have treated as a defining issue between the two major political parties and one the GOP hopes will carry it to victory in November's mid-term elections. ...