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Quel est le budget de ICE aux États-Unis ?
Executive Summary — What the records show about ICE’s money in the United States
The available analyses portray two sharply different pictures: an established baseline of roughly $9.6–$9.8 billion for ICE in FY2024 and a set of 2025 legislative actions and proposals that would dramatically multiply that level, including one package that allocates $75 billion over four years and other figures citing $29.9 billion or $45 billion targeted to detention and enforcement [1] [2] [3]. These documents agree that the FY2024 appropriations center ICE’s spending near $9–10 billion, while multiple July–August 2025 analyses describe an extraordinary supplemental or legislative expansion that would shift the agency’s scale and mission significantly [4] [5] [6].
1. Big baseline: The fiscal year 2024 anchor that most sources cite
Across government reporting and annual summaries, ICE’s near-term budgetary baseline for FY2024 is consistently reported at about $9.6–9.8 billion, reflecting increases over prior years and specific line-item allocations for custody, removal, investigations, and other operations [1] [2] [4]. The FY2024 appropriations package noted above funded tens of thousands of detention beds and boosted custody operations