Trump's ICE force is sweeping America. Billions in his tax and spending cuts bill are paying for it

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : "The good news is that thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill that President Trump signed, we have an additional 12,000 ICE officers and agents on the ground across the country," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a December statement.
57% : The GOP's version of the annual bill would provide about $92 billion for the agency, including $10 billion for ICE.
56% : By LISA MASCARO, Associated Press Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- A ballooning Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget.
56% : Swelling ranks of ICE officers, to 22,000, in an expanding national force bigger than most police departments in America.
49% : "We're looking at ICE in a way we've never seen before," he said.
49% : Lawmakers are considering various restrictions on ICE operations, including limiting arrests around hospitals, courthouses, churches and other sensitive locations and ensuring that officers display proper identification and refrain from wearing face masks.
45% : Of that, ICE, which typically receives about $10 billion a year, was provided $30 billion for operations and $45 billion for detention facilities.
44% : And it's not just ICE.
43% : The GOP's big bill is "supercharging ICE," one budget expert said, in ways that Americans may not fully realize -- and that have only just begun.
32% : President Donald Trump promised the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, but achieving his goal wouldn't have been possible without funding from the big tax and spending cuts bill passed by Republicans in Congress, and it's fueling unprecedented immigration enforcement actions in cities like Minneapolis and beyond.
30% : "I think ICE needs to be totally torn down," said Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., on CNN over the weekend.

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