ICE Doesn’t Need Another $100 Billion: Patricia Lopez

One of the biggest spending items in the Republican budget bill has hardly gotten any attention: $170 billion for an unprecedented crackdown on immigration. By some calculations, it would make the annual budget of Immigration and Customs Enforcement larger than Israel’s entire defense budget.

The supplemental funds — to be spent over the next four years — would leave vital aspects of immigration reform unaddressed. But the funding is essential to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. Vice President JD Vance left little doubt of that when he posted on social media, “Everything else — the [Congressional Budget Office] score, the proper baseline, ...