The Worst ICE Agents Are Coming
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Tens of billions of new dollars plus a rush to hire 10,000 new agents equals a disaster in the making.

For all the Trump administration’s talk of saving money and increasing “government efficiency,” the president demanded that huge amounts be appropriated in the Republicans’ recent budget bill to fund his mass-deportation program.

In all, $170 billion was set aside to be spent over the next four years for border and immigration enforcement. This total includes $45 billion to create a sprawling detention system (nearly five times the annual budget for the Bureau of Prisons), $30 billion for ICE operations, $46.6 billion for more border wall construction, and, as if that weren’t enough, a new $10 billion border patrol slush fund.

This level of funding is unprecedented. ICE is now the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the country. And that fact raises a question: What exactly are they going to do with all that money?

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    If you think that’s bad, imagine the kind of fuckups who would nominate someone that’d campaign so terribly that they couldn’t wipe the floor with him (four times in a row!)

    • Velypso@sh.itjust.works
      53·
      13 days ago

      You’re not wrong there, the leaders of the DNC are absolute fucking idiots.

      But so are the morally righteous idiots that decided they would help another genocide along while making the genocide they “cared” about worse.