President Donald Trump signed legislation June 10 providing $70 billion to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.
Prior to the bill’s passage, the U.S. bishops were among those who urged lawmakers to make immigration policy reforms aimed at protecting the dignity of migrants, such as efforts to prevent the separation of families.
However, after months of debate over possible reforms, none of those measures were ultimately included in the final bill as negotiations in Congress fell apart.
Called the Secure America Act, the approximately $70 billion legislation would fund ICE and CBP for the next three years, through the end of Trump’s second term in the White House, and was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in a narrow 214-212 vote the previous day.
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