Big Beautiful Bill Would Bolster ICE Budget

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The so-called Big Beautiful Bill is dominating the news cycle.  Rebecca Schneid for Time reports that “Republican leaders in the House are set to vote . . . on [the bill], which would significantly increase funding for federal immigration enforcement . . . . ICE’s current annual budget is around $10 billion. Under the version of the bill that passed the Senate, the agency would receive an infusion of more than $100 billion through 2029: $45 billion for detention facilities, $46 billion for border wall operations in the U.S.-Mexico border and $14 billion for deportation operations.”

The story reports that ICE “currently has about 6,000 deportation officers” and would receive funding under the bill “to hire an additional 10,000 new agents by 2029.”

UPDATE (July 4):  Juliana Kim for NPR on “How Trump’s tax cut and policy bill aims to ‘supercharge’ immigration enforcement”

KJ

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