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WASHINGTON \u2014 Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe lauded President Donald Trump\u2019s politically charged deployment of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border<\/a> \u2014 and offered legislation Thursday he says will fund a border wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSimply put, border security is national security, and right now we need to defend our southern border,\u201d Inhofe, R-Okla., said in a statement to Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the bill\u2019s text was not immediately made public, Inhofe\u2019s \u201cWALL Act,<\/a>\u201d would bar undocumented immigrants from accessing government benefits and tax credits to use that savings to \u201cfund the President\u2019s $25 billion border wall,\u201d according to a summary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe also framed the legislation as an alternative to the Department of Defense paying for the wall \u2014 a path the Trump administration has sought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one sees this as a long-term solution,\u201d Inhofe said of the troop deployments. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m introducing legislation that will fully fund the wall \u2014 without having to use DoD funds \u2014 and reform our asylum process, taking a lot of the pressure off [the Department of Homeland Security] and Border Patrol so active-duty troops won\u2019t be needed in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether the funding mechanism adds up remains to be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a gimmick,\u201d said longtime Washington-based budget analyst Stan Collender. \u201cIt proposes to use spending that\u2019s not actually certain to be spent to pay for the wall. It\u2019s nothing more than a deficit increase in sheep\u2019s clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe\u2019s support comes as Trump said<\/a> the number of troops he is sending to protect against a migrant caravan could grow to as many as 15,000 active-duty and National Guard personnel, putting the deployment on par with the military\u2019s wartime operations in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Troops at the U.S.-Mexico border will be limited in what they can do under a federal law that restricts the military from engaging in law enforcement on American soil. That means the troops will not be allowed to detain immigrants, seize drugs from smugglers or have any direct involvement in stopping a migrant caravan that is still about 1,000 miles from the nearest border crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, their role will largely mirror that of the existing National Guard troops \u2014 about 2,000 in all \u2014 deployed to the border over the past six months, including providing helicopter support for border missions, installing concrete barriers, and repairing and maintaining vehicles. The new troops will include military police, combat engineers and helicopter companies equipped with advanced technology to help detect people at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deployments have been criticized as a wasteful political stunt to motivate Republican voters to show up for midterm elections next week \u2014 a charge Defense Secretary Jim Mattis dismissed during a Wednesday news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In supporting Trump, Inhofe cited previous presidents deploying troops to support the civilian agencies on the border, a rise in illegal immigration and the president\u2019s insistence the situation is urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, made a similar argument last week, when the Pentagon was expected to send just 800 troops, but he has not publicly commented since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A fundamental responsibility of any country\u2019s government is to control who and what comes across its border,\u201d Thornberry said. \u201cAllowing thousands of people to cross America\u2019s southern borders in contravention of our laws is not a sustainable solution to the difficult conditions driving people out of their homes and countries in Central America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has taken a hard stance on immigration, but after campaigning on Mexico paying for a border wall, Mexico has refused and Trump has struggled to win support in Congress for the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approaching midterms, Trump has made immigration policy a priority; besides troop deployments, he wants to sign an executive order to end automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. whose parents are undocumented immigrants \u2014 though the legality of that proposal is under debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Trump has focused on migrant caravans slowly making their way to the U.S. On Wednesday, he pointed<\/a> to a violent clash with Mexican authorities on the Guatemala-Mexico border earlier in the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!\u201d Trump tweeted Monday. On Thursday, he tweeted<\/a> a political ad accusing the Democratic Party of allowing in rioters and cop-killers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this photo taken Jan. 7, 2015, Senate Environment Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional Republicans are shrugging off Pope Francis\u0092 call for urgent action on climate change and dismissing his attempt to frame global warming as a moral issue. Inhofe, Congress\u0092 leading global warming skeptic, said he disagreed with \u0093the pope\u0092s philosophy on global warming.\u0094 He also warned that the pope\u0092s encyclical will be used by “alarmists” to push policies that will lead to a tax increase that would hit the poor hardest. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday, Inhofe offered a milder assessment of the caravans than Trump has, saying he didn\u2019t blame Central American migrants attracted by President Barack Obama\u2019s more permissive policies toward asylum seekers for trying to enter the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese people who are asylum seekers, it\u2019s not really their fault, they are coming up here at the invitation of Obama,\u201d Inhofe said. \u201cI don\u2019t blame them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe in August proposed legislation that would require migrants to declare asylum at embassies or consulates in Mexico; create a criminal bench warrant for immigrants that have failed to appear for immigration court; and create a pilot program for alternatives to detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe\u2019s new bill would require work-authorizing Social Security numbers to claim the earned income tax credit or the child tax credit; require states to verify citizenship using e-verification prior to granting federal government benefits like housing subsidies; and increase \u201cminimum fines on illegal border crossers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That savings would be between $14 billion and $30 billion, Inhofe said this week, citing a Joint Committee on Taxation estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is one where most of the money will come from that will build [the] very wall that you and I know has to come about if we\u2019re going to solve this problem,\u201d Inhofe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inhofe\u2019s office and an official with Congress\u2019s Joint Committee on Taxation declined to provide that estimate, but a 2016 Congressional Budget Office<\/a> estimate projected $37 billion in savings over 10 years from a similar plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon Adams, who oversaw defense budgeting for the Clinton administration and who has ties to the congressional Budget committees, dismissed the bill and its funding mechanism as \u201c100 percent political B.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCan\u2019t pay for a discretionary expenditure with estimates of out-year mandatory savings,\u201d Adams said. \u201cA very large teapot, with a tempest swirling around, but not amounting to a hill of beans, to mix metaphors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unable to get enough congressional support to fund the wall, Trump said Sept. 8 he is looking toward the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have two options: we have military and we have Homeland Security,\u201d Trump told reporters then. \u201cI\u2019d rather get it through politically, I\u2019d rather get it through Congress. If we don\u2019t, I\u2019m looking at that option very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sept. 4, DHS asked the Defense Department use $450 million to enhance existing border fencing and construct new border fencing along 31 miles of the Barry M. Goldwater Range in Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday no decision on that request has been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The range falls within \u201ca known drug-smuggling corridor for transnational criminal organizations,\u201d said Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, adding that the request \u201calso address increasing human life and safety concerns by deterring unlawful entry onto an active bombing range.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Democrats urged Mattis in a letter to deny the request, citing testimony from Pentagon officials on the need for investments in maintenance, training, modernization of aging weapons systems and the DoD\u2019s $116 billion maintenance backlog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That letter was signed by Reps. Adam Smith, D-Wash., ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee; Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee; Peter Visclosky, D-Ind., ranking member of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee; and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., ranking member of the House Appropriations military construction subcommittee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the administration would have to seek congressional approval to transfer funding in the way DHS has requested. As of Wednesday, a Senate Appropriations Committee aide confirmed there has been no formal request for that purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversation is not over. A DHS spokeswoman said Wednesday that Secretary Kristjen Nielsen \u201cis committed to building President Trump\u2019s border wall and is engaged in ongoing conversations with the Department of Defense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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