Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : ICE and Border Patrol will get $170 billion in additional funds through September 2029 -- a huge surge of funding over their existing annual budgets of about $19 billion after the Republican-controlled Congress passed a massive spending package in July.
48% : Homan said the number of arrests will increase sharply as ICE hires more officers and expands detention capacity with the new funding.
35% : Some 41 percent of the roughly 54,000 people arrested by ICE and detained by late November had no criminal record beyond a suspected immigration violation, agency figures show.
35% : In the first few weeks in January, before Trump took office, just 6 percent of those arrested and detained by ICE were not facing charges for other crimes or previously convicted.

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