The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved $4.6 billion in largel...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved $4.6 billion in largely humanitarian aid to address a surge of migrants at the southern U.S. border with Mexico, with a vote expected in the full Senate as soon as next week.
The Trump administration had sought the money last month for programs that house, feed, transport and oversee record numbers of Central American families seeking asylum and straining capacity at migrant shelters in border cities. Leahy emphasized the package would not fund “the administration’s ineffective detention-first policies,” but instead provides resources for alternatives to detention in order to keep families together.
There is also $145 million for the Defense Department, which has mobilized to help respond to the crisis, and $220 million for the Justice Department to help process immigration cases and “detain dangerous individuals,” Shelby noted.
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