A new $70 billion windfall for ICE — and Delaney Hall data that disproves DHS misinformation
Welcome back to This Week on ICE.
First, the biggest news of the week: On Wednesday, President Trump signed a new bill that gave ICE a $70 billion windfall that will fund the next three years of immigration enforcement activity, putting an end to a months-long stalemate in Congress.
It was this stalemate that led to a partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year, ICE agents in airports across the country, and 90 percent of Homeland Security’s 260,000 employees working for over a month without pay. The funding from this new bill is in addition to a $75…
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