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I have no words … except that we’ve only seen the ‘trial balloon’ phase of the Trump-Miller police state rollout — that is, if this Budget Bill sails through without a hitch.
by Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaen, Rollingstone, via msn.com — 6/12/2025
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The Trump tax bill would steer tens of billions of dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detention capacity, employee bonuses, and to hire new agents. It would supercharge ICE's ability to conduct raids, and allow the administration to expand the campaign of terror it's waging on immigrants in Los Angeles to blue cities around the country.
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"This bill would give Donald Trump the ability to do what he's doing [in California] on a scale we really haven't seen before," says David Bier, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "He will be able to replicate this militarized approach to Los Angeles across maybe dozens of American cities."
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[...] The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the bill will direct an astounding $168 billion of the budget to immigration and border law enforcement, and there is even more for agencies that indirectly support immigration law enforcement.
However, the CBO’s cost estimate is deficient in three ways. First, CBO assumes that all this increase is temporary, and second, it will happen gradually over the next 10 years, rather than in an immediate, reckless spending spree. Most importantly, it neglects the more significant cost of removing immigrants who would have paid more in taxes than they received in benefits. Properly considered, the actual cost of H.R. 1’s immigration enforcement spending is nearly $1 trillion more than the CBO estimates. When seen in the context of the overall costs of the bill, mass deportation would account for almost a quarter of the bill’s total price tag.
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The Trump administration desperately wants to spend this money immediately. It is even plausible that they could blow through this money by next year and demand more from Congress. It is already stealing from other agencies and the military to do enforcement, and it is currently spending money for ICE appropriated for the end of the year. The bill appears to confirm this more aggressive timeline by mandating the hiring of 10,000 ICE agents for a cost of $8 billion—$800,000 per agent. It costs ICE about $200,000 in compensation per agent per year (p. 12), meaning that $8 billion is only enough to employ these agents for four years. The same math applies to CBP personnel.
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Currently, about 50,000 people are detained, so this means that ICE would likely be
detaining more than 200,000 people at a time once the funding kicks in. Most of the detention capacity already exists.
ICE just needs to sign the contracts,
which it would do immediately. During
Trump’s first term, there were about 10 detentions in a year for every detention bed available, implying that
at least 2 million people would be detained annually under H.R. 1.
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There has been some debate in Congress over this supercharging of the Trump-Miller Deportation agenda — despite his high-jacking of the news-cycle, day after unbelievable day ...
by Lisa Mascaro, AP, via msn.com — 6/11/2025
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But Republicans are in agreement on border security, deportation and military funding, over the objections of Democrats who fought vigorously during the committee process to strip those provisions from the bill.
The package includes about $150 billion for border security and deportation operations, including funding for hiring 10,000 new ICE officers — with what Johnson said are $10,000 hiring bonuses — as well as 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and other field operations and support staff.
There's also funding for a daily detention capacity for 100,000 migrants and for flights for 1 million deportations annually. The package includes $46 billion for construction of Trump’s long promised wall between the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Dems have to win back the House and put a stop to this madness. Rampant lawlessness is not going to make America “great again” — despite unpopular opinions, to the contrary.
Now that I think about it, “I do have no some words” on their police state take-over, still only in its “spring-training” phase … but you’ll have to click here, if you really want to read them.
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Peace out, for now. Stay watchful. Stay vigilant.
Say “Hell No,” whenever you get the chance. America is better than this. At least it should be.
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Migrant workers pay taxes too … Last I checked, the vast majority of them are not “Criminals.”
