Merrick Garland channels SNL's sleazy lawyer Nathan Thurm in his 60 Minutes appearance...
What? 41% of the French population favor limiting people to FOUR flights for...
Ari Drennen from Media Matters gets SCHOOLED after saying homeschooling should be illegal
Goodest boi bites owner. X responds as it should
That's gonna be a big fat NO: David Frum ROASTED after suggesting Congress...
'Doing about the best job possible': Kurt Schlichter defends Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich: 'Is Gaetz secretly an agent for the Democratic Party?'
Breaking: Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield dies at 57
Here's a list of all the stories I couldn't write about this week...
‘Things white families do’: Woke K12 opposes positive activities, wants focus on ‘oppressi...
'Democrats failed': Sen. John Cornyn blames 'Sen. Schumer's failure of leadership'
Marine Corps relaxes attire rules amid camouflage uniform shortage
'You're a FOOL': Megyn Kelly VICIOUSLY claps back at Mediaite for trying to...
Like father like daughter --> Liz Cheney pushing to fund more war in...
Matt Gaetz OUTS McCarthy for quietly making side-deal with Democrats on Ukraine to...

Border chief asks for $23 million to handle predicted surge of 75,000 illegals

If you ask him, GOP candidate Donald Trump will be happy to remind you that he was the one who kicked off his presidential campaign talking about illegals and border security. Trump took a lot of heat for his comments about Mexicans and rape, but he did manage to keep the issue at the forefront of all the candidates’ campaigns and do significant damage to former “Gang of Eight” member Marco Rubio and Jeb “Act of Love” Bush.

Advertisement

Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has repeatedly spoken about how she wants to build ladders to opportunity and empowerment, not walls. Those actually charged with enforcing America’s southern border, however, wouldn’t mind a wall.

Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner reports in today’s issue that R. Gil Kerlikowske, commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection, yesterday asked Congress to allocate $23 million to the agency to deal with an expected surge (or “seasonal increase”) of 75,000 illegal youths this year.

“Border officials have blamed the lack of a tough anti-immigration policy for the surge,” writes Bedard, “and said that the word in Latin America is that once illegal immigrants get in, they are essentially allowed to go free.”

Bedard adds that Kerlikowske called for more agents rather than more fencing, as well as other higher-tech solutions such as (securely tethered) tactical aerostats, ground sensors, and more.

Advertisement

The Examiner’s Joel Gerkhe futher reports that Ronald Vitiello, acting chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, told a House Homeland Security subcommittee panel Tuesday that improving the “physical barrier” at the border would help supplement the current fencing, which has had a “great effect” on controlling immigration and drug trafficking. No such “wall” has been formally requested, though.

* * *

Related:

Sound ‘contained’? NATO commander warns ISIS ‘spreading like a cancer’ among refugees

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Twitchy Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement