re: #338 wrenchwench

It gets better. From Reuters:

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is on pace to run out of money in mid-August, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection in mid-September, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has said.

If extra funding is not provided, the government will have to transfer money from other agencies to deal with crisis at the border, where 57,000 children traveling alone have tried to enter the United States from Central America this year.

The transfer of funds is known as “reprogramming” and can be carried out by the Obama administration without legislation.

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, was “deeply concerned” that forcing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to move money around will affect other critical operations, according to a Democratic committee aide.

Border security will be hurt because DHS probably would need to reduce aerial support for the Border Patrol and put off buying technology needed at border points, according to Democratic and Republican congressional aides.

“We also understand that it would hinder some of the very functions critics of the supplemental (funding) seem to support: expedited detentions and deportations of undocumented migrants,” the Democratic aide said on condition of anonymity.