After a long fight House Republicans passed the bill by a single vote. It now goes to the Senate where changes are expected.
The House bill includes money for border wall infrastructure, personnel and equipment, technology and surveillance and immigration enforcement.
It includes $46.5 billion for the construction and improvement of border barriers including primary, secondary and waterborne structures as well as access roads.
In an interview posted on X by the Federation for American Immigration Reform Homan (shown left) explained how the "Big Beautiful Bill" will help improve U.S. border security.
"We're going to put more and more border wall up. We'll put more water buoys in. That's going to save lives. It's going to add technology to the existing new border wall that the Biden administration didn't put into the wall.”
Not only did former President Joe Biden allow millions across the border, he weakened any efforts by the next administration to build a wall.
“So, it's a smart wall, but Biden stopped the tech equipment from getting embedded in the wall to let us know when someone approaches that wall, climbs the wall, digs under that wall. And it also allows agents to talk to each other on the radio, because a lot of the area in the southwest borders is a dead area. You lose communication. That's going to also fix that problem," Homan said.
A number of fiscal conservative Republicans had to be convinced to support the bill, but Homan says the spending is necessary to fix the immigration problem Biden left.
The bill “gives ICE more money to buy more beds. Right now, we got 50,000 people in custody. We're only funded for 34,000. ICE is already in the hole for $500 million. We need 100,000 beds. This bill does that. Every person we arrest and deport has to have a bed before they get on that flight as we make arrangements to remove them from the country. This allows us to buy more beds and allows us more ground transport. It allows us more for air transport. It allows us more resources to go out and look for the bad guy. So, this bill is going to help us solidify the success we're already seeing," Homan said.
