{"id":224325,"date":"2024-04-20T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=224325"},"modified":"2024-04-20T07:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T11:55:29","slug":"95-billion-just-sent-to-foreign-countries-including-about-61-billion-to-protect-ukraines-borders-while-us-suffers-the-waves-of-illegal-alien-invasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=224325","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>$95 billion just sent to foreign countries including $61 billion to protect Ukraine&#8217;s borders while US suffers never-ending waves of illegal alien invasions<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_224326\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224326\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224326\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2065326137-1-640x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2065326137-1-640x480-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2065326137-1-640x480-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-224326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VOLYN OBLAST, UKRAINE &#8211; FEBRUARY 13: Ukrainian border guards walk past concrete barrier during patrolling of the border with Belarus on February 13, 2024 in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. Airspace monitoring is carried out with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles. Also border guards patrol the area on foot and in armored vehicles. (Photo by Yevhenii Vasyliev\/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->JOHN BINDER | Breitbart.com<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subheading\">A spending bill backed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) includes hundreds of millions of dollars in American taxpayer money for border patrol agents in Ukraine as illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border remains at record levels.<\/h3>\n<p>The spending bill, which 151 House Republicans\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2024142?Page=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">helped<\/a>\u00a0165 House Democrats advance on Friday, would see more than $95 billion sent to foreign countries \u2014 including about $61 billion to Ukraine amid its ongoing war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Slipped into the funding package\u2019s Ukraine\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/republicans.rules118.house.gov\/files\/APRIL2024_UKRAINE_xml_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">spending<\/a>\u00a0is $300 million for \u201cthe State Border Guard Service of Ukraine 20 and National Police of Ukraine, including units supporting 21 or under the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The State Border Guard Service is the Ukrainian equivalent of the U.S. Border Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, while illegal immigration stays sky-high at the southern border, President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Homeland Security (DHS)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/13\/mayorkas-freeing-laken-rileys-accused-killer-into-u-s-was-warranted-despite-available-ice-detention-space\/\">is asking<\/a>\u00a0Congress to fund only 34,000 detention beds for migrants arriving at the border \u2014 7,500 fewer beds than those currently funded by lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director\u00a0Patrick Lechleitner, though, told Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) this week that he would\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICEnforcement\/status\/1780764003402182789?t=3PzjO9_GJ5IH601fs1-jeQ&amp;s=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">prefer<\/a>\u00a0Congress fund 50,000 detention beds, a figure still below the hundreds of thousands that are necessary but well above DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/19\/mike-johnsons-spending-bill-includes-300m-for-border-patrol-in-ukraine\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/19\/mike-johnsons-spending-bill-includes-300m-for-border-patrol-in-ukraine\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}