President Joe Biden's budget proposal for next year includes a $4.7 billion emergency fund for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to increase its operations during surges in unlawful immigration, NBC News reported on Monday.
Concretely, the fund would let DHS access the money as needed when the amount of border crossings breaks an unspecified threshold. If the money ends up not being used, it would be transferred to the general funds of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
