That additional money, which would amount to an increase of $328 million over last year’s funding, would be allocated not for a wall but to improve infrastructure at ports of entry and to pay for additional immigration judges to process asylum cases at the border, the official confirmed. Most drugs and asylum-seekers come through the official entry points, according to the government, and not across the border expanse where the president wants to have a wall.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 19, 2019 18:07 UTC