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'Emergency' demand for $3.7 billion to build detention & processing facilities for refugees
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President Obama has officially asked for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to handle the tens of thousands of Central American children who've showed up unaccompanied at the U.S.-Mexico border seeking entry and support.
According to the Washington Post, "Administration officials said the request is part of a comprehensive strategy aimed at building more detention centers, adding immigration judges, and beefing up border patrols and air surveillance."
Critics have blasted the president's request for focusing little on controlling the border and, instead, spending the bulk of the money on new Homeland Security facilities, as well as administration money to the Dept. of Human Health Services and other agencies to care for the refugee minors. While the White House insists these children will likely not be allowed to stay, there is little reason to think they will be sent home anytime soon -- and the detention centers would suggest long-term plans to house mass numbers of refugees.
Obama's plan -- ostensibly to support migrant Central American children -- expands upon previous upgrades to federal government emergency powers.
In 2006, KBR (a Halliburton subsidiary) received a $385 million dollar contract to construct and operate some 600 detention facilities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), operating under supervision from the Department of Homeland Security, "expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S." These detention camps would be used to process and hold migrants until deportation determinations have been made.
Estimates say that each of the 600 emergency centers could house up to 5,000 people, with a total capacity of some 400,000 -- raising questions about why the president would need several billion more in emergency funding to create new centers.
Of course, the KBR contract also covers use of the facilities for other emergencies, such as those where FEMA would house displaced Americans during various crises. The ICE-designated government facilities could also be used by other agencies to "support the rapid development of new programs" or as part of a "plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster,"
Early Republican skepticism suggests the bill may have trouble becoming law, but the nature of the request is revealing about the federal government's larger designs for immigration reform, amnesty and border (in)security.
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White House requests $3.7 billion in emergency funds for border crisis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-to-seek-38-billion-for-border-control-more-than-previously-signaled/2014/07/08/ac95a56e-06a9-11e4-bbf1-cc51275e7f8f_story.html
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