The Big, Beautiful Bill, passed Thursday by Congress, dramatically increases funding for immigration enforcement by President Trump’s policy priorities.
The funding will allow the Trump administration to approximately double immigrant detention capacity, significantly bolster immigration enforcement personnel and potentially exacerbate backlogs in the court system.
The bill, which will go to Trump’s desk by his July 4 goal, allocates more than $100 billion to ICE and border enforcement through September 2029.
While the funding runs until 2029, federal departments are not required to spend the money evenly each year.
The legislation makes ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency, per the Brennan Center.
The existing annual budget for ICE was about $8 billion.
Trump’s immigration enforcement policies have put ICE under financial strain.
As of last month, ICE was $1 billion over budget, by one estimate, with more than three months left in the fiscal year.
The funding crisis is exacerbated by Trump’s demands that agents arrest 3,000 immigrants per day — an unprecedented, and still unreached, pace.
