The Hill News

Our national failure to fix the broken immigration system has led to record and wasteful government spending on immigration enforcement.  Billions of dollars could be saved if Congress terminated wasteful or duplicative programs and refocused our enforcement priorities on real threats. Instead, in the interest of political expediency, some members prefer to spend lavishly - adding to our already out-of-control debt- to enforce outdated rules that haven’t changed in more than twenty years and no longer make sense. 

Like shopaholics with a wallet full of credit cards, they buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have. While Congress may have champagne tastes when it comes to enforcement spending, the American people know we’re working with a beer budget. It’s time for Congress to take a serious look at bloated enforcement spending, trim some fat, and fix our broken immigration system.

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