House approves FY2024 DHS Spending Bill
The House of Representatives approved a spending bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the 2024 fiscal year last night. The legislation includes a number of provisions to strengthen immigration enforcement, including defunding the Biden Administration's use of the CBP One app to allow illegal migrants to apply for parole and defunding other efforts to weaken interior enforcement and expand parole authority.
The original bill contained a harmful provision that would have drastically expanded H-2 visas, but its impact was lessened after House Leaders (under pressure from NumbersUSA) reverted the provision back to last year's provision that allows the DHS Secretary, in consultation with the Department of Labor, to roughly double the number of H-2B visas for the fiscal year. The original provision would have increased H-2B visas nearly six times.
The legislation passed the House 220-208, mostly along party lines. All Republicans voted for the legislation, while most Democrats opposed the bill. Two Democrats crossed party lines and joined with the Republicans, including Rep. Jared Golden of Maine and Rep. Marie Perez of Washington.
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