Republican Megabill Would Fund Trump's Police State

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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.