A bill to fund the government worked its way through Congress this week. The funding will allocate substantial increases to support the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts.
Specifically, it provides at least $430 million more to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for immigration detention beds, transportation, and deportation costs, and an additional $136 million to the Department of Justice to support anticipated increases in detention of immigrants.
Instead of addressing the massive backlogs crippling our immigration courts, the resolution includes a $2.5 million cut to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ discretionary spending while ignoring our overloaded immigration courts.
In this fact sheet, the American Immigration Council discusses the extraordinarily high levels of funding already allocated to immigration enforcement – both at the border and within the interior of the United States.
Read more: The Cost of Immigration Enforcement and Border Security
