The Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), released on February 1, 2010, demonstrates the enforcement mentality which drives the federal government’s approach to immigration.
The two immigration-enforcement components of DHS, CBP (Customs and Border Protection) and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, consume 30% of DHS' total budget; while the the immigration services component, USCIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services), is allotted a only 5%.
So, instead of moving forward with comprehensive immigration reform, which could actually stimulate the economy, the DHS budget proposes to throw billions of dollars into enforcement-only measures which have historically been unsuccessful in dealing with unauthorized immigration.
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