Budget reconciliation package includes $45 Billion for ICE detention
May 1, 2025
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Published by Jeremy Beck
This week, the House of Representatives released details on its proposed budget for immigration enforcement, including $45 billion for detention through FY 2029, an increase of over 300% from the current budget.
“Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence,” said Barbara Jordan. “Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”
Many an administration has declared that they can’t do more to require inadmissible aliens to leave because they lack the detention space. Few of those administrations, however, asked Congress to adequately fund detention.
Prior administrations have also been hamstrung by a lack of available human resources to credibly enforce immigration in the interior. The New York City police department has more officers to protect and serve a single U.S. city than Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employs to cover the entire country. This budget reconciliation package includes $8 Billion to hire new ICE agents.
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