Amid record numbers of illegal border crossings this week and thousands of illegal immigrants “pouring into” the United States every day, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond issued an urgent plea to the federal government to “fix the chaos and restore order.”
“Foreign aid should not be the dealbreaker when it comes to securing our border,” he said, referring to the federal budget impasse in the U.S. Senate, in a Dec. 19 statement.
With senators headed home for the holidays, the budget stalemate means that tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid earmarked for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, will be held back until the border crisis is curbed or until a budget deal is reached in the new year….