US EditionTrump’s Ominous ICE Security State
UNITED STATES, JUL 6 – The bill allocates $170 billion to immigration enforcement, increasing ICE detention funding by 365% and adding 10,000 agents to expand deportation efforts, experts say.
- The Bulwark's Jonathan V. Last analyzed that under President Donald Trump's administration, ICE will surpass the FBI in federal law enforcement power due to an increased budget and staffing levels.
- ICE's budget will exceed $45 billion by 2029, growing its current workforce of 20,000 by adding 10,000 new agents.
- Many immigrant communities felt unsafe during the recent Independence Day celebrations, with reports of cancelled events due to fears of ICE raids, creating a somber atmosphere among those affected.
- Many immigrants skipped Independence Day celebrations due to fears of ICE raids, according to Alkamalee Jabbar, who noted that his former students now feel unsafe at work.
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GOP gives ICE massive budget to expand deportations
ICE is receiving a major infusion of funding to help carry out President Trump’s deportation agenda. The big budget bill passed by Republicans includes billions for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, giving it more funding than any other federal law enforcement agency. White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports.
Trump now has 'national brute squad' that can 'mete out violence as they see fit': analyst
Following the signing of President Donald Trump's megabill, his administration will soon have a sprawling police state run by political appointees to use at his disposal.That's according to a Tuesday analysis in The Bulwark by Jonathan V. Last, who broke down the numbers in the massive Republican budget legislation that became law last week. Last compared the staffing levels and culture of the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) an…
US President Donald Trump is increasingly relying on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, better known as ICE, to implement his policies, which, thanks to the removal of control mechanisms within it, the limited power of lower courts, and the Supreme Court's decision regarding presidential immunity, has turned into "Trump's de facto private army, his security state within the state," writes the Financial Times.
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