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The concept of a deportation-industrial complex, including the potential for immigration enforcement to create a lucrative industry for private prison operators and vendors.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...