Federal Official Issues Major Warning After Border Bill Fails

An official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned Wednesday that the failure of the recent Senate border bill would reduce operations on the border due to a lack of funding. The border bill that Republican lawmakers opposed last week would have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an arm of the DHS. GOP lawmakers warned that the bill would lead to mass immigration, would likely tie the hands of a future president in enacting more border controls, and was unnecessarily tied to funding to Ukraine and other countries. After the failure, reports citing anonymous agency officials surfaced this week that ICE is circulating a proposal to release thousands of individuals who were detained after illegally crossing the border. They said that the agency currently faces a $700 million budget shortfall, while the border bill had included $7.6 billion for ICE, including $2.6 billion to carry out deportation flights and another $3.2 billion to fund detentions....