Details of the $170 billion enforcement package shows most of it will come from public health, food, and safety programs, government departments, medicine and health supports.
It is a multi‑year immigration and border enforcement package passed in Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” covering ICE, Border Patrol, detention expansion, deportation operations, and infrastructure.
The four‑year enforcement package, not a single agency budget includes:
ICE itself receives about $45 billion of that total for detention and deportation operations.
Trump’s White House is attempting to scale up to 1 million deportations annually, a level never before achieved in U.S. history.
- Managing the money means:Expanding detention capacity
- Increasing rapid‑removal operations
- Contracting private detention companies
- Building new processing centers
- Funding mass transportation (buses, flights)
ICE is receiving more funding than any other federal law enforcement agency to support this expansion.
- New detention facilities
- Surveillance technology
- Rapid‑response enforcement teams
- Large‑scale transportation logistics
This is the largest immigration enforcement investment in U.S. history.
In the real sense of things the funding is being used to create a Trump-personal-quasi-secret police force.
Emerging evidence and reporting suggest that the Trump administration’s use of the $170 billion immigration‑enforcement package raises profound constitutional and statutory concerns.
Continue @ Gary Revel.
We'd be pissed too if immigrants in our respective countries are commiting widespread fraud. No wonder Trumps boosting ICE. https://komonews.com/news/local/federal-fraud-investigation-minnesota-seattle-somali-community-governor-bob-ferguson-community-social-media-youtuber-fbi-director-kash-patel-tukwila
ReplyDeleteSteve - more fraud committed every year by the billionaires. Yet the immigrants take the hit.
DeleteSteve, I have no desire to fall out with you but the growing anti-,migrant and anti-Islam tenor of your posts is quite saddening.
ReplyDeleteRegrettably, it is something I too have noticed creeping in. The clinical reasoning is no longer there.
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DeleteWe are adults, we don't have to 'fall out' because we disagree on things. My merely pointing things out that have concerned me and others is solely my opinion that's all. When it comes to Islam yes I am very suspicious of their adherents especially when they openly call for jihad and to try to take over. And this isn't some Trump shite this is straight out of family who live in France, so I'm sorry if I agree with Hitchens on this but you better believe them when they tell you exactly who they are. And have you seriously no concerns with widespread illegal immigration?
Anthony,
I think I'm definitely getting more grumpy as I age! But I agree, the biggest financial criminals wear white collars, especially the fucking banks. I can also hold concerns about different groups of people. I'm not fussed on Parisians for example, they tend to be right up their own holes and that's from personal experience many times lol
Grumpiness is not the issue but the course but takes us down.
DeleteI am opposed to Islam but it doesn't stop me grabbing a pregnant Muslim woman by the arm and guiding her through Dublin crowds to the taxi rank even though I couldn't see her face. I am fine with people opposing policy. That policy can be abortion or immigration. It is when the hatred of people comes out that my concern kicks in. And while you have not expressed hatred of people you have been regurgitating far right talking points about people. It is a route you should avoid going down as there is only one terminus.
What I don't get about the Woke Left is its adherence to collectives yet a blind spot when it comes to cultural attributes that collectives unavoidably bring with them. There are group dynamics and group behaviour which people should be free to discuss rather than be smeared for doing so.
There is an article from Labour Heartlands which ran last night. It is basically a Left argument against immigration. I don't agree with a lot of it but it is the type of discussion that needs to be had rather than the screaming Woke using fascistic cancel culture to suffocate it.
Perhaps you are right Anthony, I woke up this morning wondering if my social media feed was feeding me full of shit to inflame concerns. Might be time to log off more.
DeleteAll the best for the New Year Quillers, hope fortune shines on you all.
That is what the algorithms are designed to do.
DeleteYou make a valuable contribution to discussion and give people food for thought. The slippage from opposition to policy to opposition to people is what you should be cautious about.
Happy New Year to your and yours.
Happy New Year Steve, and indeed to all Quillers.
DeleteIf I were to be cynical, I would say the Labour Heartlands piece appeared, at first glance, to bear the resemblance of tactical political manoeuvring. At any rate, there is much there that I also don't particularly agree with. It has quite a lot of content to unpack. I'll have to give it another read.
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