Giffords hails House revival of $701 million for border
So much for the “do nothing” feds.SIERRA VISTA — Although $701 million for border security was cut by the U.S. Senate last week from the war supplemental bill, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the same amount Wednesday in an emergency border security funding bill.
The funds’ revival was introduced by Democratic U.S. Rep. David Price of North Carolina, chairman of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee.
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Now the ball has been passed back to the Senate, where she said she hopes the upper chamber will quickly approve the funding.
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House Bill 5875 includes funds for 1,200 additional Border Patrol agents, 500 more Customs and Border Protection officers at ports of entry, improved tactical communication along the border, three permanent Border Patrol operating bases, two additional unmanned aerial vehicles, $201 million for the Department of Justice to hire additional agents for the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI for border duties and to hire additional prosecutors, $50 million for Operation Stonegarden grants to support local law enforcement activities and $30 million for Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities.