President Joe Biden’s proposed budget provides funding for 350 additional border patrol agents, but it also adds 460 more “processing assistants” and a new $150 million to help pay the legal expenses of aliens who are fighting deportation.

In addition to adding 350 border patrol agents, Biden’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024 provides $40 million to “combat fentanyl trafficking and disrupt transnational criminal organizations” and creates a new $4.7 billion contingency fund to aid the DHS and its components “when responding to migration surges along the Southwest Border.”

It also provides $865 million to:

Additionally, Biden’s budget spends $1.5 billion, an increase of $595 million, to “manage and mitigate” the backlog of immigration cases – and $150 million of new discretionary resources to provide legal representation to aliens facing immigration court proceedings.

Another $7.3 billion in the budget is dedicated to helping “rebuild the Nation’s refugee resettlement infrastructure and support the resettling of up to 125,000 refugees in 2024.”

And, if that isn't enough to do the job, Biden’s budget includes a contingency fund to provide even more money for resettlement:

“An emergency contingency fund that would provide additional resources, beyond the $7.3 billion, when there are unanticipated increases in the number of unaccompanied children or other humanitarian entrants, building on the contingency fund enacted for 2023.”