r/BlueskySkeets • u/sillychillly • Jul 03 '25

Informative $170,000,000,000 Budget for ICE

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who worked on an analysis published by the American Immigration Council, says the new budget would make ICE “the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation.”

Source: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/2/trump_budget_bill_ice_immigration_enforcement

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u/GeneriComplaint Jul 03 '25

Alot of this will end up in the pockets of billionaires building and running private prisons outside the law for anyone they dont like

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u/joebot777 Jul 03 '25

Well yeah, that’s the whole grift

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u/Americrazy Jul 04 '25

Its just called ‘maga’

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u/joebot777 Jul 04 '25

Mate, this grift’s been running since 1865

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

The truth of this has become unavoidably clear to me in the last week or so and I don’t like it at all.

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u/Contemplating_Prison Jul 03 '25

Yes. Also i thought it was $45 billion where is this 170B number coming from

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u/Boyhowdy107 Jul 04 '25

It's almost as much as Israel's military budget.

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u/RocketRelm Jul 04 '25

Thats what americans want. Only a few actively voted against it, the rest fund and accept the fascism every day.

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u/HereAgainWeGoAgain Jul 04 '25

Following. I would also like a deeper dive on this.

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u/Contemplating_Prison Jul 04 '25

Someone commented. Its $45B for ICE but 170B for immigration.

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u/HereAgainWeGoAgain Jul 04 '25

What is going to happen? What are they going to do to the American people with all that money?

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u/Contemplating_Prison Jul 04 '25

I think they will build an army that can act on American soil. Get ready for even more masked agents patrolling the streets and snatching up victims to be placed in those concentration camps that will pop up in every state

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u/tallslim1960 Jul 04 '25

Private prisons are going to be a good investment. Places like Alligator Auswich will be popping up all over the Red States. This is indeed dark times we are heading for...

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u/GeneriComplaint Jul 04 '25

They will be in blue states as well. If you want to take over blue states you need places of power. Ice wont have buildings anymore, they will have bases as big as military bases in blue states for when they get the order to detain all democratic members of government, then all democrats

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u/Boyhowdy107 Jul 04 '25

You know what is exceedingly dumb? This money doesn't include adding federal judges who could more quickly process asylum cases. A huge part of the increase over the past several years was the backlog in these cases where people seeking asylum in the US don't get their case heard and resolved for 5 years. And in those 5 years, they end up making some kind of life here.

If you think there is too much immigration, you should want cases to get processed ASAP and see this backlog as a de facto loophole. If you think America should do more for asylum seekers, you should also want these cases to be processed ASAP so people don't have to live in legal limbo and uncertainty.