Trump Signs $70 Billion DHS Enforcement Law, Locking In Funds Through 2029

3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 13

$70 billion in new DHS funding gives Trump’s immigration crackdown a multiyear cash infusion, with money available through Sept. 30, 2029—about eight months after he is due to leave office.
$38 billion goes to ICE, $26 billion to CBP and $5 billion to DHS, with the law centered on deportation operations, detention, transport, local police partnerships and border enforcement.
At least $350 million is reserved for enforcement in noncooperating jurisdictions, while the bill bars most funds from being used to release immigrants into community-based monitoring programs instead of detention.
Democrats failed to add warrant, anti-profiling, masking, body-camera and oversight provisions after a prolonged DHS shutdown tied to two citizen deaths in Minneapolis; Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican senator to vote no.
The measure follows last summer’s $170 billion immigration-enforcement package and comes as advocates say more than 70% of 60,311 detainees had no criminal convictions as of early April.