Federal Spending Bills Must Address Border Crisis, Conservatives Say

If Congressmen are serious about border security, they will use the power of the purse to secure America’s borders, according to Lora Ries.

Congress is gearing up for debates over the federal budget and some Republicans say they won’t support any spending bill that gives money to the Department of Homeland Security without action being taken to secure the border, a hard line Ries, director of the Center for Border Security and Immigration at The Heritage Foundation, says she supports. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

The changes needed to secure the border are comprised in the Secure the Border Act, also known as H.R. 2, Ries says. The House has already passed the bill.

If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the bill would “tackle asylum fraud” and end programs like “mass parole” and “catch and release,” Ries says.

“These are the types of tools that are needed to really secure the border and keep that flow stopped, and otherwise just giving more money to the administration is going to continue their current open border operations,” Ries says.

Ries joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why the fight to secure America’s border is so critical to the nation’s future.

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