Trump’s new law provides for huge sums for the immigration authority ICE. Is the hunt for migrants really going now?
Large raids in migrant quarters, apparently arbitrary arrests from masked civil servants, deportations in unsafe third countries: The government of US President Donald Trump has been massive against immigrants since it started in January. The declared goal: millions of people without valid papers are to be achieved out of the country. And with the “Big Beautiful Bill” legislative package, Trump seems to create the prerequisites to achieve this goal.
It provides lavish taxes for rich, millions of Americans cost their health insurance, cuts access to food aids for the unemployed – and makes huge remedies free for Trump’s fight against immigrants.
According to the non-governmental organization American Immigration Council (AIC, US Council for Immigration), these funds add up to around $ 170 billion (around $ 144 billion) by 2029. This money mainly flows to the Ministry of Homeland Property or directly to the immigration authority ICE assumed to him – in addition to its regular budgets.
This amounts to almost $ 130 billion for the Ministry of Homeland Protection in the coming year. However, this also includes expenses for population and coastal protection, cyber security and traffic supervision. So far, the ICE has been available for around eight billion dollars annually, and this basic budget will also increase in the coming year, and then more than eleven billion dollars.
Unaffected by this, the ICE will receive another $ 75 billion by 2029. According to the law, $ 45 billion is intended for the construction of new detention centers, including for families. According to the AIC, the capacity of detention could increase a total of around 56,000 to at least 116,000 beds.
The ICE receives another almost 30 billion euros for the hiring of 10,000 new agents and measures in connection with deportation, such as process costs. The Ministry of Homeland Security receives another $ 46 billion for the construction of new border facilities.
“With this vote, the Congress made the ICE the best-financed law enforcement agency in the history of the United States,” wrote the chairman of the AIC, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, after the vote on the Bluesky platform. “You will be available more money in the next four years than the FBI, the anti -drug authority, the US Marshals and prison management.”
But while government critics like Reichlin-Melnick see bad times for immigrants, the US government cheered just this aspect of the law: its rest of which is “meaningless compared to the money that the ICE is now getting to enforce our immigration policy, Vice President JD Vance has recently been allowed A visit to President Florida.
At the beginning of last week, Trump and Homeland Protection Minister Kristi Noem visited a new deportation prison in Everglades, the swamp area in the south of the state – notorious for his alligators and pythons. In the future, up to 5,000 people should be able to be held there, in grid cages, each with several stick beds.
