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Advocates and watchdogs criticize the rapid contracting and profit from deportation efforts.
Public reporting does not provide a clear ledger of dollars handed to street-level demonstrators opposing ; instead the coverage documents a political and organizational ecosystem — congressional appr...
The 2025 budget surge funneled tens of billions of dollars into ICE’s enforcement and detention missions, and the early spending went overwhelmingly to large private detention firms and a cluster of s...
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA / H.R.1) dramatically expands funding for immigration enforcement, channeling roughly $170–171 billion toward border and interior enforcement over multiple years and ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA or “Big Beautiful Bill”) directs roughly $74.85–$75 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the 2025–2029 period — composed of about $29.85–$29.9 billion ...
’s budget started small at its creation in 2003—roughly $3.3 billion by most accounts—and has grown substantially in two phases: a steady climb over the first two decades to roughly $7–9 billion annua...
Private contractors and state or local facilities have been central to ’s rapid detention expansion in 2025–2026: corporations win contracts to build, convert and operate new beds while counties and s...
Federal ICE enforcement brings a mix of short-term fiscal benefits—direct spending on enforcement and deterrence claims—and measurable local economic harms, including labor shortages, lost revenue for...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) devotes roughly $45 billion to expand ICE detention capacity and sharply increases enforcement budgets, and those funds will almost certainly flow through standa...
Since the (OBBBA) became law, reporting shows a mix of announced or executed contracts, contract modifications and facility reactivations for and — including high-profile reopenings at , and Karnes, n...
—large short-term surges of , , or other personnel to a city—are authorized through a mix of pre‑authorized contingent funding, internal reprogramming transfers under Secretary/ authorities, and suppl...
Publicly available reporting and official descriptions make clear that ICE’s enforcement mission in 2025 is focused primarily on interior operations, and Congress and the administration vastly expande...