Republican Megabill Would Fund Trump's Police State

[Native]

Source: HUFFPOST

Republican Megabill Would Fund Trump’s Police State
ICE’s detention budget would increase 13-fold, on top of billions for other infrastructure and thousands of new officers across federal law enforcement.

The bill would provide $45 billion to build immigration jails “for single adult alien detention capacity and family residential center capacity” — a 13-fold increase over ICE’s 2024 detention budget, according to a National Immigration Law Center analysis.

A separate part of the bill allocates $29.9 billion in additional funding for ICE activities, including hiring thousands of new immigration agents and giving them five-figure signing and retention bonuses, as well as for transportation contracts to shuttle migrants between detention centers and out of the country, Migrant Insider reported.

Customs and Border Protection would get $46.6 billion for border wall construction and even more for facilities ($5 billion), personnel ($4.1 billion), bonuses ($2.05 billion) and vehicles ($855 million).

Elsewhere in Republicans’ bill, $10 billion has been allocated for a “State Border Security Reinforcement Fund,” which would compensate states that build their own border walls, “interdict” unauthorized migrants and “relocate” those migrants elsewhere in the country.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-budget-bill-ice-federal-law-enforcement-spending_n_6862d326e4b02e5da206771c

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The director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute told NBC that the level of immigration enforcement & street harassment that we will see by Border Patrol will be unrecognizable in American history, and law enforcement will be helping them out. He also said, “The average American probably hasn’t seen an ICE raid in action, but they will if this bill passes," and added, “It’s going to be everywhere.”

To put things in perspective, the current budgets for ICE and CBP have been around 10 and 18 billion, respectively.

[Bayard]

1. Funded, courtesy of Medicaid

[Native]

3. Exactly, with the added benefit of exploding the national debt.

[bluestarone]

2. THIS is probably the biggest reason the RETHUGS are being pushed

to pass it. THEY are dirty bastards!!

[pecosbob]

4. They need money to build prison farms for incarcerated farm workers

They want to make slavery great again.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Why are we spending many billions of taxpayer money to build detention facilities?

It would seem far cheaper to put people on a plane and send them back to their home countries. Neither option is humane, but I think the prisons are intended to keep people locked up for the rest of their lives. Trump and Republicans are assuming that Democrats will never again have the power to undo these actions.

[Native]

6. The answer to your question is in the title of this article; the ultimate goal is the funding of a police state.

and if the other facilities are like Alligator Auschwitz, they will be temporary facilities. I'm here in Florida (soon to be the concentration camp capital of the world), and there's a shit ton of talk about erecting quite a few more camps in our state. They're looking at Starke for two more camps, Camp Blanding for another (that's a former POW camp near Jacksonville), and other potential sites...

According to an immigration enforcement plan provided by the governor's office, Florida has identified several "brick-and-mortar" locations in the northeastern and south central regions that could serve as detention centers. Camp Blanding was used as an example, but the locations of others are unknown.

The document also mentioned that there are 12 established Emergency Logistics Contracts vendors that have the capacity to establish detention centers capable of housing up to 10,000 undocumented immigrants and support staff. It mentions these facilities can be fully operational within 72 hours and require up to 96 hours to begin setup.

"To support a seamless detention and deportation process, these potential locations are typically located near airstrips," the document writes.

https://www.wusf.org/the-florida-roundup/2025-06-30/what-we-know-alligator-alcatraz-camp-blanding-immigrant-detention-center-plans

[Iamscrewed]

7. More concentration camps

They won't learn until the smell of rotting corpses overwhelm them and then they will likely blame someone else.

[Native]

8. Nah, remember the refrigerated morgues during Covid? Out of sight, out of mind. And then there's always the alligators.

[Iamscrewed]

10. Soilent green

[Exp]

9. It's going to be GREAT!!!