"Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, giving it more funding than any other federal law enforcement agency"
"Under this bill, if — by 2028, you're talking about spending effectively 80 percent of all federal law enforcement dollars will go to immigration enforcement."
that seems like an issue, and just an excuse to increase funding on non-ICE in the future. its not like other crime just stops in the US.
"They can transfer it to other parts of ICE. But ICE plans to hire an additional 10,000 new agents to the tens of thousands they already have."
I am old enough to remember when the government hiring 10,000 new agents to uphold the existing laws was an issue for the right.
"and that they could end up using the money to hire out contractors that could help ICE agents, that could supplement their operations."
oh goodie. I am guessing there is some way to legally do this, but I don't like the sound of Blackwater running the streets looking for people to dump into the back of an unmarked vehicle, and trust that they are grabbing up only the bad guys.
"They expect that a lot of private prison companies are going to be getting the majority of that money in order to build out these facilities"
I loathe the idea of private prisons, period. this just encourages the state to lock people up to meet the full house quotas they have.
"The bottom line, Amna, is that there is no way to reach that 7,000 daily arrests that Tom Homan and the administration is talking about without expanding their targets.
Now, ICE arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and the UCLA Center for Immigration Law shows that a majority of the undocumented immigrants that have been arrested since Trump took office did not have a criminal conviction"
way to focus on the dangerous criminal element there Trump.
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