Southern Border Region/Washington
DC - The
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is requesting a $33B budget for increased
border security. $18B of the budget is allocated for more than 700 miles of new
and replacement border wall that will roll out over a 10-year span.
According to sources, the
outlandish request was laid out in a detailed document drafted by DHS for
members of Congress.
Christian Ramirez, Director of
the Southern Borders Communities
Coalition, issued the following statement:
“The administration has released
a misguided and outlandish proposal that seeks to waste $33 Billion dollars of
taxpayer money to further militarize border communities, by building walls and
deploying more federal agents. This funding request is an affront to the 15
million people who call the borderlands home.
The notion that border communities
need more walls and more border agents is patently false, unjustified and
detrimental to the civil rights of the millions of people who live, work and
travel through the borderlands. Such proposal will devastate our environment,
undermine public safety, trample on sacred land, and jeopardize the economic
prosperity of our region. It’s time for the Trump Administration to get serious
about governing and abandon hyperbolic rhetoric as a replacement for
policymaking. It’s time for Congress to act on a bipartisan solution that
protects Dreamers and approaches border policy based on reality and data and
not on rhetoric and politics.
Congress should reject the
expensive, extreme, and excessive proposals from the President and move forward
with a bipartisan solution for the crisis created by the White House when
DACA was unilaterally abolished.”
About Southern Border Communities
Coalition
The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) brings together organizations from San Diego, California, to Brownsville, Texas, to ensure that border enforcement policies and practices are accountable and fair, respect human dignity and human rights, and prevent the loss of life in the region.
The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) brings together organizations from San Diego, California, to Brownsville, Texas, to ensure that border enforcement policies and practices are accountable and fair, respect human dignity and human rights, and prevent the loss of life in the region.
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