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One border is being attacked with weapons, tanks, and soldiers.

The other one is facing people in need who are willing to do jobs no one else wants.

Hard to spot the difference, I guess. 

Cliff notes version please. I have not been through all of it.

What else is in the budget? Does it include housing and such for migrants? Healthcare? Food? Clothing?

I'm genuinely curious.

If not, where does that come from?

Did Congress vote to appropriate the funds?

Modern Border Security Technology 

• $63.2M for Border Enforcement Coordination Network (BECN): Supports the modernization of IT systems, equipment, and services that support the planning, detection, classification, and analysis of illegal border activity, providing program confluence and database architecture enhancement. 
• $60.2M to fund three unmissionized aircraft, which will be the base aircraft for the first three Land Interdiction Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft (MEA), as well as procure long lead time materials for the acquisition of the second and third Land Interdiction MEAs. 
• $36.7M for Common Operating Picture (COP): Funds maturation, testing, training, and transitioning to Initial Operational Capability (IOC) status for the COP installation at Douglas, Arizona USBP facility and three additional USBP locations. IOC is tentatively scheduled for the 4th quarter of FY 2023. 
• $13.5M for Integrated Surveillance Towers (IST): Establishes a program to consolidate all surveillance towers into a single program. Also supports the sustainment of 723 towers across the Northern and Southern Borders of the United States. 
• $13M for Aircraft Sensor Upgrades: Replaces obsolete, out-of-production, difficult, and expensive-to-support aircraft sensor integrated mission systems. 

Trade and Travel Enforcement and Facilitation:

• $70.3M for Combating Forced Labor: Supports requirements of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) through addition of enforcement personnel, technology, training, strategy, and outreach. This request supports hiring 300 additional positions, including 50 CBP Officers (CBPOs). 
• $41.4M for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE): Funds incorporation of the entire Collections Entry Lifecycle in one ecosystem and the ability to utilize trade data from ACE modules will provide a holistic view for both the trade community and CBP. Also funds operations and maintenance activities. 
• $24.7M for Advanced Trade Analytics Platform (ATAP): Enables ATAP to develop, test, and deploy the Case Management modules and the development, testing, integration, and deployment of ATAP’s data platform application. 

Mission Capability and Mission Support Enhancements

• $145.4M for design and construction of two Border Patrol stations ($60.0M), AMO facilities ($23.5M), a Trade and Cargo Academy ($18.6M), the build-out of a mission support facility in Indianapolis ($8.0M), and facilities to house Office of Professional Responsibility agents requested in the 2022 Budget ($35.3M). 
• $104.8M for USBP Hiring/Training/Resiliency: Supports hiring an additional 300 BPAs ($65.3M) and basic training throughput ($29.5M). Funds will also support improvements and advances in CBP employees’ overall well-being ($10M). 
• $4.2M for USBP Intelligence Specialists: Supports hiring 33 Intelligence Specialists in FY 2023. 

Non-citizen Processing and Care 

• $129.5M for Medical Services at the Border: Funds contracted medical support to individuals in CBP custody at approximately 63 locations. Additionally, this funding supports the transition of responsibility for paying off-site medical claims for migrants in CBP custody from ICE to CBP ($31.5M), and the establishment of the Office of the Chief Medical Officer ($28.8M). 
• $26M for Unified Immigration Portal (UIP): Supports completion of Phase 4 for UIP which will enable completion of core capabilities that are necessary to prepare the program to achieve Full Operational Capability, expected in the 4 th quarter of FY 2023. Requested funding will also support the deployed Phases 1-3 of UIP. 
• $23M for Border Patrol Processing Coordinators: Funds the hiring of 300 additional Border Patrol Processing Coordinators. $17.7M for the Transportation Program: Funds transportation of non-citizens at the Southwest border. 

Three of the above initiatives indicate CBP’s ongoing work to build analytic capabilities in support of evidence-based decision making. In particular, BECN, ATAP, and UIP are examples of how CBP is prioritizing improving our database architectures, real time information sharing, and building analytic capability within the organization. However, there is still much work that needs to be done for CBP to become a data-driven enterprise, such as integrating analytic decision support into our Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Accountability process. CBP is working on identifying how that analytic support can be institutionalized and is currently formulating an enterprise-wide analytics strategy, in addition to other efforts, to support decision making that is relevant, repeatable, and defendable.

If only we had some source of people looking to train and work in blue collar jobs.