"Just 10 years ago, the annual budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, was less than $6 billion notably smaller than other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. But ICE's budget has skyrocketed during President Trump's second term, becoming the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency, with $85 billion now at its disposal. The windfall is thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, enacted last July. After hovering around the $10 billion mark for years, ICE's budget suddenly benefited from a meteoric spike."
""With this new bill and other appropriations, it's larger than the annual budget of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined," said Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior director of the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute. ICE is now the lead agency in President's Trump immigration crackdown, sending thousands of agents into U.S. communities. As its funding and profile has grown as part of those efforts,"
"ICE's sudden growth spurt follows roughly two decades of relatively modest funding since 2003, when the agency was created by merging the U.S. Customs Service with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In 2015, for instance, Congress approved a budget of around $5.96 billion, which was nearly $1 billion less than then-President Barack Obama had requested. In 2019, during the first Trump administration, border control officer's encounters with migrants attempting authorized entry to the U.S. spiked."
ICE's budget ballooned from under $6 billion a decade ago to $85 billion after passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, making it the most-funded U.S. law enforcement agency. Funding increased sharply during President Trump's second term after years around $10 billion. ICE now leads aggressive immigration enforcement, deploying thousands of agents into U.S. communities. Funding and profile growth coincided with rising criticisms of officer behavior, including masked stops, detentions in unmarked vehicles, and the killing of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. ICE's expansion follows two decades of modest funding, a 2015 budget near $5.96 billion, 2019 encounter spikes, and COVID-era Title 42 expulsions.
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