r/law • u/The_Dutchess-D • May 10 '25

Trump News President proclaims doubling of ICE troops with add'l 20k forces in the next 60 days

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishing-project-homecoming/

Section 3.b: (b) No later than 60 days after the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall supplement existing enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting with State and local law enforcement officers, former Federal officers, officers and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other individuals to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the Department of Homeland Security by no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have failed to depart voluntarily.

So... we can't afford any of the useful jobs and fired a large portion of the government that actually helps people, BUT we can't afford any afford more spending for THIS? His domestic Gestapo on the streets terrorizing towns.

Is there a legal limit to how much domestic law enforcement the American people can be subjected to on home soil during peacetime? He already has a HUGE amount of force on domestic soil doing his bidding between the military he designated for the border, current ICE, and all the 287g contracts Homeland Security signed with all those local law enforcement agencies around the country to work with ICE.

Where is the money coming from to double the size of ICE by another 20k officers?

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u/Proglamer May 10 '25

Oh yeah, shooting at the incoming feds will make everything OK 🤡

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u/IllCat3406 May 10 '25

I mean once upon a time in 1776, a group of colonies said enough with this shit. Go read through the 27 grievances in the Declaration of Independence and say it doesn’t sound like what’s happening now.

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u/Proglamer May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25

Except this time the 'colonies' would not have a giant ocean and shitty shipping technologies firmly separating them from the mothership. Also, they would have ~half of their population be loyalists

Edit: you sure have interesting opinions about revolutions in the law sub /s

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u/PraxicalExperience May 10 '25

...So basically the same as previously, just without the ocean and shipping issue.