President United States, Donald TrumpHe suggested that “nOr you will need a lot of money To protect Border with Mexico, Despite the record budget for migration actions approved by Congress in his “great and beautiful bill”, because migration irregular Fell on “zero“
I do not think that we need most of these (money), because we had zero (irregular migrants) that entered last month, ”he said.
“I’m not sure how much we want to spend,” the media president said after a meeting in the media with his office.
Trump emphasized the “huge money” for the border, which contains its “Great and Beautiful Account”, which was signed on July 4 and considers the record of $ 170,000 million for borders, customs immigration and control service (ICE, in English) and build new centers of detention.
In the budget, more than $ 46 billion is allocated for the construction of the border wall, more than three times, which was spent in the first administration of Donald Trump (2017-2021), according to the analysis of the American Immigration Council.
But now the president hinted that, perhaps, the money would be saved, referring to the data that in June showed the customs and border protection department (customs office and border (CBPIn English), who claims that he allowed zero immigrants without documents in the United States during May, compared with 62 thousand of the same month of 2024.
“You might think, in fact, to save a lot of money, because the wall was built mainly and obviously worked,” the president insisted.
Trump’s plan also includes a new fund of $ 10 billion to reimburse the National Security Department (DHSFor his abbreviations in English) for expenses associated with “the protection of the borders of the United States to protect against illegal entry of people or smuggling.”
With information EFE
