ICE’s Budget Is Set to Triple Next Year
Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill funnels tens of billions of additional dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — meaning the agency will have three times as much to spend next year as it did this year.
An ICE agent at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023, in New York City. (David Dee Delgado / Getty Images)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 545,252 people from the US between 2021 and 2024, according to its data, including 271,484 last year.
The Trump administration wants to deport one million people per year. To that end, there’s $75 billion for ICE in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was signed into law earlier this month. This includes:
$45 billion to expand the agency’s “detention capacity,” including building new ICE prisons (see Section 90003 of the bill).
$30 billion for bonus pay for ICE personnel; recruiting, hiring, and training new personnel; additional facilities, vehicles, and funding for “enforcement and removal operations” (see Section 100052).
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