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    [OC] ICE’s budget has surged under Trump to become the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency

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    1. GetTheFactsHTV on

      Hi everyone, this is Will from the Get The Facts data team and I wanted to share this chart we published that visualizes the increase in ICE’s funding under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Happy to answer any questions you all might have.

      [And if you want to see some other interesting charts related to ICE’s funding, you can find them here! ](https://www.wbaltv.com/article/how-much-ice-funding-trump/70147693)

      *Sources:* [*Congress.gov*](http://Congress.gov)

      *Visualizations made with Datawrapper*

    3. Ok-Brick-1800 on

      Good, I’m glad. No country in the world allows illegal immigrants of this magnitude to live within its borders.

      By everyone’s standard calling ice Nazis and a boot thug army that would make every single country in the world Nazis.

    5. naturallysonny on

      Well, I mean they’re now offering a free flight to your home country and $2600 dollars if you volunteer to “remigrate” using the DHS app. I’m sure that’s not helping their budget.

    8. lorderok on

      Ohhhh this is where all the money for research, parks, education, CPB, the USPS, and social programs went. Cool!! This Sucks!!

    11. RichardEpsilonHughes on

      This is why defunding ICE and DHS in the current bill isn’t the leverage we wish we had.

    12. LicoriceRope on

      When you have unprecedented illegal immigration, the result is an unprecedented budget for the agency who enforces the law on illegal immigrants.

    14. caelestis42 on

      75B!? How do they manage to spend that much? Not a chance. Time to check Swiss bank accounts.

    15. McGondy on

      Purely from a financial perspective… Are the US seeing a positive ROI here? I think not. Just a way to slip wads of cash into billionaire pockets and claim “NaTioNaL SecUrItY!”

    16. dsp_guy on

      And to think, other presidents managed to deport MORE illegal immigrants with a quarter of the budget while not killing citizens.

    17. -awinisawin- on

      Now lets compare these to Obama’s ICE budget and see how much it took to become the Deporter-in-Chief… since they love to yell that into the void.

    18. Swimming-Tax-6087 on

      Did no one ask what they will be doing with 75 billion?

      20k employees x avg $60k salary is $1.2b a year.
      There’s no way variable equipment costs and fixed costs are going to be another 20x that per year.

    22. qlurp on

      A grim reminder of what’s likely to come. There’s no stopping it now, sadly. 

      This time in a few years, having our papers checked in the street and random visits from these “agents” at our homes will be commonplace. 

    23. MegaJackUniverse on

      And yet less people have been deported than under Obama or Biden, I believe.

      So it’s pure fraud

    25. Think-Mountain1754 on

      I wonder what percentage of ICE contracts went to clients of Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, who was known to the FBI for accepting bribes in exchange for Federal contracts for detention centers and other deliverables.

    27. ForMoreYears on

      Copying my comment from elsewhere as I broke down the annual and additional appropriations by year.

      DHS Budget (2026-2029)

      -Annual appropriations (FY2026): $75bn

      -OBBB appropriations (2026-2029): ~$190bn or ~$47.5bn/yr

      ICE Budget

      -Annual appropriations (2026, flat funded from 2025): ~$8.7bn/yr

      -OBBB appropriations (2026-2029, less annual): ~$9.75bn/yr

      So between DHS and ICE, with annual and additional appropriations, the two are soaking up ~$141bn/yr in funding. We don’t know exactly how much of DHS’ budget is being allocated to ICE, but they have the capacity to theoretically push ICE’s budget alone up to ~$65bn/yr (or possibly more if they allocate annual approps) in funding.

      For context, that is 3x the U.S. Marines’ annual budget.