Trump bill gives ICE $45 billion for detaining immigrants - more than it received in the last 15 years combined

Source: The Independent

Trump bill gives ICE $45 billion for detaining immigrants - more than it received in the last 15 years combined

Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill spending package invests about $170 billion overall in immigration and border enforcement

Josh Marcus
in San Francisco
Saturday 05 July 2025 02:43 BST

The Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” domestic spending legislation, which passed Congress yesterday, will provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement about $45 billion over the next four years to spend on detaining undocumented immigrants, part of an unprecedented investment in enforcement set to turbo-charge the administration’s already sweeping campaign of arrests and deportations.

The funding is more than the federal government spent on immigration detention during the previous three presidential administrations, combined, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council told Democracy Now! that the spending package, which contains about $170 billion in wider immigration and border funding, makes ICE “the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation.”

“We’re talking nearly 20 years’ worth of detention funding to be spent only in a four-year period, and an increase to ICE’s enforcement budget beyond anything we’ve ever seen before, allowing the agency to expand mass deportations over the next four years to every community nationwide,” he said.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bill-ice-detention-funding-b2782918.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-bill-gives-ice-45-172334095.html