Across the country, people are beginning to ask a hard question: what does it mean to shop at a company that is cooperating with ICE and Border Patrol?
If legislators funded ICE and CBP at those levels for the current year, combined with funding from the Big Bad Bill, the annual budgets for those agencies would total $64.9 billion (assuming the Big Bad Bill funds are spent equally over the 51 months they’re available). That amounts to a 92 percent increase over the previous highest funding level for the agencies, which was $33.8 billion in FY 2019; a 209 percent increase since FY 2024; and a 441 percent increase since the creation of ICE in FY 2002.
The new law slashes vital services to pay for tax cuts for the rich and massive hikes in military and deportation funding.
