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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) voted for the Fiscal Year 2025 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which provides funding to secure the southern border and rejects the Biden administration’s policies that incentivize illegal immigration.

“The crisis at the border is manmade, self-inflicted, and entirely avoidable, which makes it even more heartbreaking and frustrating,” said Congressman Wittman. “It is fundamentally driven by the Biden administration's gross mismanagement at the border and failure at every level.”

“When President Biden took office, he made the calculated decision to immediately halt the border wall construction, revoke successful deterrence-focused policies, relax enforcement of immigration laws, and open the borders,” Congressman Wittman continued. “Today, House Republicans took yet another step in securing the border. I am proud to vote for this year’s Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which will combat the president’s open border policies and provide robust funding for our Border Patrol agents and technology. It is time for the Biden administration to act and end their border crisis.”

Congressman Wittman has a strong record of supporting border security measures, including:

• Voting for the Secure the Border Act, the strongest border security package in American history. 
• Voting to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his refusal to enforce U.S. immigration law.
• Calling on President Biden to reinstate the previous administration’s successful Remain in Mexico policy.

The Fiscal Year 2025 Homeland Security Appropriations Act addresses the Biden Border Crisis – which resulted in 3.2 million encounters by Customs and Border Protection last year alone – and secures our southern border:

• Provides $600 million for construction of the southern border wall and $300 million for border security technology, a record level of funding.
• Sustains funding for 22,000 Border Patrol agents.
• Forces Secretary Mayorkas to build physical barriers immediately and ensures wall funding can only be used to build physical barriers.

The Fiscal Year 2025 Homeland Security Appropriations Act removes dangerous criminals by:

• Providing $4.1 billion for custody operations, which is more than ever previously appropriated, to fund 50,000 detention beds. 
• Providing $822 million to fund transportation and removal operations for removable illegal immigrants. 

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