Posted on 05/23/2025 12:26:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The House Republicans’ tax and spending package is set to infuse the Trump administration with a monumental funding hike for immigration enforcement, aiming to dramatically ramp up the scale and pace of the president’s mass deportation agenda.
The bill, which the House approved on a party-line vote Thursday, would allocate more than $150 billion in additional funding over five years to Trump’s border and immigration agenda. That includes more than $51 billion to construct and upgrade border barriers and facilities and $59 billion for immigration detention and transportation.
Most of the funding would be allocated to the Department of Homeland Security, whose annual budget is more than $100 billion.
The Trump administration has made immigration enforcement a top priority in President Donald Trump’s first months in office. But its efforts to deport record numbers of migrants has lagged behind the president’s ambitious goals, slowed by the operational complexities and legal restrictions of arresting and removing them from the country.
Administration officials expect the new money will help overcome some obstacles by significantly expanding DHS’s staffing and detention capabilities. Authorities said the House package would allow the administration to add 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and 8,500 Customs and Border Protection officials, and expand the number detention beds from 41,000 to 100,000.
The legislation still must past muster in the Senate, however, where hurdles remain. Senate Republicans have been supportive of boosting immigration enforcement resources, although some have expressed concerns that too much money may be allocated for the border barrier, as well as aspects of the massive bill unrelated to immigration. They are expected to seek significant changes to the package, which would then need to be negotiated with the House.
Tom Homan, the White House’s border czar, hailed the immigration-related budget increases in a social media post, saying...
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Yet Rand Paul,Thune, and Ron Johnson are against the bill.
Isn’t DHS the same agency many here have been demanding be shuttered and broken up? Lots of flip flopping.
“Trump’s immigration enforcement”
Not just “immigration enforcement.” They never miss a chance to stick in a pejorative.
What is “Trump’s immigration enforcement” and how is it different from immigration enforcement?
If the wimpy Supreme Court doesn’t back Trump’s deportation policies then we will need to add tens of millions of dollars in new prison and holding centers.
Arrests and then waiting for “due process” the Dem judges demand.
Where do we put all of the millions of those offenders?
Maybe they’ll tell us to release the current inmates due to overcrowding or let go like the Covid days.
Back to the streets.
Or, send them to Van Hollen, Schumer and Hakeem’s homes.
$150 billion? That’s a lot.
But many times cheaper than having to support the many millions who enter illegally and need to be supported for years on the taxpayer’s dime.
After the wall is up completely, the yearly costs should come down.
You’d rather have a few more million border jumpers??
Over the course of their life time I wonder how much money one illegal alien costs America ?
How did you jump to that ridiculous conclusion?
If Trump doesn’t start ignoring judges attempting to micromanage his presidency, his presidency and the country itself is finished.
And for any hand wringing RINO squish who frets that Trump must follow the whim of every judge.....the constitution is NOT a suicide pact.
What good will it do if the courts won’t allow him to deport anyone?
TRUMP’S VERSION IS REAL
BIDEN VERSION WAS BACKWARD
“Yet Rand Paul,Thune, and Ron Johnson are against the bill.”
And how many billions in pork are in the bill?
That age old conundrum: whose pork?
“Yet Rand Paul,Thune, and Ron Johnson are against the bill.”
The Uniparty.
If the wimpy Supreme Court doesn’t back Trump’s deportation policies then we will need to add tens of millions of dollars in new prison and holding centers.
Arrests and then waiting for “due process” the Dem judges demand.
“Where do we put all of the millions of those offenders?
Maybe they’ll tell us to release the current inmates due to overcrowding or let go like the Covid days.
Back to the streets.
Or, send them to Van Hollen, Schumer and Hakeem’s homes.”
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This is all about procedural due process, which the Administration continues to ignore. Even Clarence Thomas agrees that procedural due process is one of the primary reasons for the Constitution in the first place.
All it requires is a hearing before a federal magistrate or immigration judge, and the opportunity to respond to whatever the charge or violation may be. That’s it.
You’re right.
But as with the death row convicts there are miles of legal quagmires before the matters can sleep. To paraphrase Robert Frost.
The “worst first” criminals already were judged somewhere and thus had “due process” but shifty lawyers and the ACLU could find more and more loopholes.
The problem has to be firmly decided in our favor by the SCOTUS and/or by new legislation in Congress. As someone said “There is little chance Congress could decide with a majority in both houses to pass a bill clarifying it.”
$150 billion for Trump’s immigration enforcement id a good deal it will save 3 times the amount of spending if he didn’t do it.
Democrats pissed they miss another chance for tax increases.
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