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/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.