Senate Approves Unprecedented Spending for Mass Deportation, Ignoring What’s Broken in our Immigration System
Senate Approves Unprecedented Spending for Mass Deportation, Ignoring What’s Broken in our Immigration System
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Congress Approves Unprecedented Funding for Mass Deportation
- $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities. This represents a 265 percent annual budget increase to ICE’s current detention budget. It is a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system and could result in daily detention of at least 116,000 non-citizens.