Immigration bill’s spending already under fire

Published April 17, 2013 4:00am ET



The 844-page immigration reform draft written by the Senate Gang of Eight includes more than 20 allowances for unrestricted spending for everything from a Comprehensive Immigration Reform Trust Fund to radios for state and local cops, raising concerns among fiscal conservatives that the bill is too expensive.

The wording of the spending language varies in the language, but it is sized up in the oft-used phrase: “such sums as may be necessary.”

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