I read that this bill allocates $170 billion to ice. $170 billion comes out to about $1300 per US household for deportations.
I also read that includes $45 billion for detention centers, to build a capacity of up to 116,000. It also includes a 300% increase to ice's budget for deportation operations.
Re the BBB, I feel like too much attention is being paid to Medicaid and tax cuts and too little to the huge sum of money being appropriated to ICE.
From a journalism and dissemination of information standpoint, I would agree there should be more out there about the ICE funding and its implications.
But from a political activism standpoint, I've been hearing even from groups that are explicitly concerned about ICE that it may be strategic to focus the public conversation on Medicaid and SNAP cuts. Those are the most universally unpopular parts of the bill, and even people who explicitly *like* the anti-immigrant stuff can be persuaded to oppose the bill as a whole by focusing on those instead. It is one big bill, after all.
Absolutely - I feel like the DHS money barely got any coverage but it's one of the most frightening aspects of the bill. And what are these detention centers for? Are we going to hold people in perpetuity? Or are they going to be repurposed once detainees are sent back to their home countries (or worse)? And for what? Don't trust them at all.
Not quite to ice: to all anti immigrant thuggery. Ice goes from 8 billion to 30 billion, there's 46.5 billion for the wall mexico was going to pay for, there's a stunning 45 billion for detention centers, and another 50 billion almost entirely hateful junk.
100% this.
I read that this bill allocates $170 billion to ice. $170 billion comes out to about $1300 per US household for deportations.
I also read that includes $45 billion for detention centers, to build a capacity of up to 116,000. It also includes a 300% increase to ice's budget for deportation operations.
Re the BBB, I feel like too much attention is being paid to Medicaid and tax cuts and too little to the huge sum of money being appropriated to ICE.
Totally agree! And the people being paid to build the detention centers are Trump donors. Pure graft!
From a journalism and dissemination of information standpoint, I would agree there should be more out there about the ICE funding and its implications.
But from a political activism standpoint, I've been hearing even from groups that are explicitly concerned about ICE that it may be strategic to focus the public conversation on Medicaid and SNAP cuts. Those are the most universally unpopular parts of the bill, and even people who explicitly *like* the anti-immigrant stuff can be persuaded to oppose the bill as a whole by focusing on those instead. It is one big bill, after all.
Absolutely - I feel like the DHS money barely got any coverage but it's one of the most frightening aspects of the bill. And what are these detention centers for? Are we going to hold people in perpetuity? Or are they going to be repurposed once detainees are sent back to their home countries (or worse)? And for what? Don't trust them at all.
Not quite to ice: to all anti immigrant thuggery. Ice goes from 8 billion to 30 billion, there's 46.5 billion for the wall mexico was going to pay for, there's a stunning 45 billion for detention centers, and another 50 billion almost entirely hateful junk.