Joe Biden and his entire administration is hiding the border numbers as part of its frantic bids of securing passage of US$1.7 trillion spending bill.
Meanwhile, Brandon Judd told “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade, “It’s all political. Everything that this administration does, it has a political calculus. They didn’t want to release the numbers because they knew the omnibus was coming up. If they would have released the numbers, you would have seen a larger push to get border security funding in that omnibus. That’s what this administration does. They don’t care about the American people; they care about politics”.
On December 23, 2022, the US Congress passed the omnibus bill, with nine Republican congress members joining 215 representatives from the Democratic Party to send the bill to President Joe Biden for final approval.
According to media reports, the United States Customs and Border Protection received US$1,563,143,000 for “operations and support” in the omnibus spending bill, but the legislation prohibits the use of those funds “to acquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities, except for technology and capabilities to improve Border Patrol processing”.
The prohibition comes after United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) encountered over 2.3 million migrants in fiscal year 2022, with another 230,000 in October, the first month of the new fiscal year, according to official figures, while another 600,000 migrants evaded CBP, Fox News reported.
“There’s a small hiring of 300 agents, but that doesn’t matter because we can’t already meet our hiring quota. Last year we weren’t able to meet the 1,700 agents that we were supposed to hire. We hired about 200 less than that. So we can’t even meet that quota as it is. And that’s law enforcement across the board, throughout the entire nation. It simply, again, comes back to politics”, Brandon Judd added.
