Trump Pushes for Only One Fifth of Border Wall Funding
Article publisher:
Breitbart
Article date:
29 November 2018
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
President Trump is pushing the Republican-controlled Congress to approve only a fifth of the money needed to build his $25 billion border wall, all of which is currently tied to a slew of open borders provisions.
In an interview with Politico, Trump said he would be “willing” to shut down the federal government if a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill does not include a measly $5 billion for his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border....
In March, Trump said he would never sign another spending bill that did not include a single provision from his 70-point list of pro-American immigration reforms — where a border wall is only the beginning....
As Breitbart News has chronicled, the current DHS spending package ties $5 billion in border wall funds to a variety of cheap-labor giveaways to the big business lobby, the outsourcing industry, and the open borders lobby, including:
- A quasi-amnesty for DACA illegal aliens
- A revival of Obama’s catch and release policy
- A right to migrate for all foreign nationals claiming to flee gang violence or domestic abuse
- A green card giveaway for at least 200,000 Indian nationals
- A tripling of the H-2B visa program to further outsource American jobs
- An expansion of the H-2A visa program to allow farmers to import more foreign workers...
Related
DHS: Trump’s $5 Billion Request Will Build 215 Miles of Border Wall, Breitbart, November 30, 2018.