Congress allocated over $175 billion to immigration enforcement, a sum greater than military budgets of all but the U.S. and China. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is receiving more funding than any other law enforcement agency in America. Concerns emerge regarding the lack of oversight on how funds will be utilized, with minimal guardrails on ICE and Customs and Border Protection. This cash will largely expand detention and surveillance systems while benefiting close allies of the administration, particularly in the private prison sector, which anticipates significant revenue growth.
The more than $175 billion that Congress handed to the nation's immigration enforcers when it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is larger than the annual military budget of every country in the world except the United States and China.
The money will be used to expand detention and surveillance systems, and that it will enrich some of the administration's closest friends.
When Donald Trump was inaugurated, top executives at the two largest private-prison companies that contract with the federal government to detain immigrants reacted with glee.
CoreCivic's stock price rose by more than 80 percent in the week after Trump's reelection, while that of its top competitor, the GEO Group, doubled in less than a month.
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