The legislation authorizes significant new funding for immigration enforcement, including $170 billion overall, with $46.5 billion earmarked for border wall completion. ICE will become the largest federal law enforcement agency with a substantial budget boost including $14 billion allocated to local law enforcement agencies working with ICE. The emphasis is shifting towards enhancing ICE's operations focused on mass deportations rather than border crossings, potentially leading to police-state levels of spending and operations comparable to state prison systems.
Everything else-the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy-is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending.
Overall, the law provides $170 billion in new funding for immigration and border enforcement. A substantial $46.5 billion will go toward completing Trump's beloved border wall.
The administration's more immediate priority will be supercharging ICE's mass-deportation initiative aimed at immigrants already in the country.
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