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Trump’s Budget Just Passed the Senate. Brace for a Massive Increase in ICE Raids. (theintercept.com)

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Masked immigration enforcers have swept through American cities in the months since President Donald Trump took office, using flash bangs during restaurant sweeps, slamming people’s heads into the ground, violently arresting gardeners on video, and provoking mass protests against their raids. This may only be the beginning.

The massive Senate budget bill, which passed on Tuesday and awaits a final House vote, gives Donald Trump’s administration the money to rapidly ramp up mass deportation to unprecedented levels, according to immigration experts.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will have a budget for more officers than the FBI. The nation’s immigration detention centers will have more funding than the federal Bureau of Prisons.

There may be only one limit on how fast the Trump administration can spend: how quickly it can hire.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, the US is destroying itself financially so it can pay to destroy itself demographically.

I think that Trump's policie's most powerful effect on immigration will be to turn the US into such a shithole that starving people in poverty stricken third world countries will see moving there as a downgrade.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Trump is spending more on ICE than other countries spend on their entire military