WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rep. Greg Stanton renewed his call for a vote on emergency border funding today as the last of the federal Shelter and Services Program funds ran dry.
Two Arizona communities received a combined $2.2 million under the last allocation. The funds reimburse communities for eligible costs associated with housing, transporting migrants awaiting immigration proceedings. Pima County Grants Management will receive $1,093,759, and World Hunger Ecumenical Task Force, Inc. in Maricopa County will receive $1,170,126.
But Stanton told FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell during a hearing last week, “Pima and Santa Cruz Counties, the City of Tucson, and Catholic Community Services combined monthly costs have averaged more than $2 million a month this summer . . . and their costs are steadily rising, as DHS releases more than 1,000 migrants on average every day.”
“This is not nearly enough funding. Once again, the failures of the federal government have left border states and communities in the red,” Stanton said today. “Congress must pass the President’s $4 billion supplemental funding request—which includes $600 million to replenish the Shelter and Services Program.”
Stanton led two dozen of his colleagues in calling on Speaker Kevin McCarthy to bring the President’s $4 billion supplemental appropriations request before the House for a vote. The funds would be used for enforcement, management, and migrant services at the Department of Homeland Security; to hire immigration judge teams at the Department of Justice; funds for the State Department to increase efforts to reduce irregular migration across the Western Hemisphere; and nearly $800 million to reduce the influx of fentanyl across our borders and counter the threat fentanyl poses to our public health.
Two Arizona communities received a combined $2.2 million under the last allocation. The funds reimburse communities for eligible costs associated with housing, transporting migrants awaiting immigration proceedings. Pima County Grants Management will receive $1,093,759, and World Hunger Ecumenical Task Force, Inc. in Maricopa County will receive $1,170,126.
But Stanton told FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell during a hearing last week, “Pima and Santa Cruz Counties, the City of Tucson, and Catholic Community Services combined monthly costs have averaged more than $2 million a month this summer . . . and their costs are steadily rising, as DHS releases more than 1,000 migrants on average every day.”
“This is not nearly enough funding. Once again, the failures of the federal government have left border states and communities in the red,” Stanton said today. “Congress must pass the President’s $4 billion supplemental funding request—which includes $600 million to replenish the Shelter and Services Program.”
Stanton led two dozen of his colleagues in calling on Speaker Kevin McCarthy to bring the President’s $4 billion supplemental appropriations request before the House for a vote. The funds would be used for enforcement, management, and migrant services at the Department of Homeland Security; to hire immigration judge teams at the Department of Justice; funds for the State Department to increase efforts to reduce irregular migration across the Western Hemisphere; and nearly $800 million to reduce the influx of fentanyl across our borders and counter the threat fentanyl poses to our public health.