Posted on 06/10/2026 12:03:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a bill into law on Wednesday that gives his immigration and deportation agenda a nearly $70 billion boost for the rest of his time in the White House.
The bill provides $38 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and $26 billion for the Border Patrol. An additional $5 billion would cover unforeseen costs, according to the White House.
Trump signed the legislation in the Oval Office a day after House Republicans pushed the measure through by a 214-212 vote over the objections of Democrats. His signature ended a nearly six-month fight over Department of Homeland Security funding that began with shooting deaths of deaths of two U.S. citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, in January during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
Democrats began demanding changes to immigration enforcement after the shootings, creating an impasse — and resulting in the longest agency in history — that ultimately led Republicans to go it alone on the funding.
The agencies will be funded through the next three years. The new law front-loads routine annual funding, ensuring a virtually uninterrupted flow of money as the Trump administration seeks to deport some 1 million people per year.
The legislation had become sidetracked over $1 billion for White House security, including for Trump’s new ballroom, and a $1.8 billion fund to compensate his allies who claim to be victims of political prosecution. Both proposals became politically toxic and were scrapped.
The bill as passed focused exclusively on immigration enforcement, a topic that Republicans have treated as a defining issue between the two major political parties and one the GOP hopes will carry it to victory in November’s midterm elections.
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The headline writers drive me crazy. They are always making their headlines thinly veiled ad hominem highly personal attacks.
They could have written it factually without the snide back-stabbing: “Trump signs bill providing $70B for ICE and Border Patrol to enforce immigration law through end of his term”
Your nation thanks you, Mr. President,
well, at least the Real Americans among us appreciate it.
Ignore the parasites in the peanut galleries.
Not enough.
Obama, Biden and the Democrats created an illegal alien trafficking economy where there was a huge constituency making tons of money off of the illegal alien invasion.
Team Trump is flipping the script on the Democrats. Trump is cutting of the funding and incentivizing of illegal alien trafficking and creating his own well funded border security and deportation economy Before Trump we were funding our own demographic destruction and now we are funding an end to that insanity.
The question isn’t “Are you disgusted with these supposed news agencies?”.
But, more accurately ”Are you disgusted enough?”.
I think we will expect a lot going on in the next two years.
Things are changing.
I read that after USAID was shut down, the DemocRAT National Committee (DNC) had to start taking out loans.
And a lot of groups hostile to the US had money problems as well.
More winning.
I want to see some “real” mass deportation!
Minimum, 480,769 per week will flush 25 million migrant scum in the two years remaining of Trump’s term...
A savings of several trillion dollars for the national debt...
This one is worse..
“President Donald Trump signed a bill into law on Wednesday that gives his immigration and deportation agenda”
I sure hope those ICE and BP agents have employment lined up after Trump’s term is over, since their civil service protection will be gone.
If a democrat is elected, expect the entire department to be dismantled.
The AP stands for All Propaganda.
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