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Just 10 years ago, the annual budget for... ICE, was less than $6 billion... But ICE's budget has skyrocketed during Trump's second term, becoming the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency, with $85 billion now at its disposal.
... After hovering around the $10 billion mark for years, ICE's budget suddenly benefited from a meteoric spike.
"With this new bill and other appropriations, it's larger than the annual budget of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined," said Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior director of the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute.
Despite the growing public repugnance at the gun-happy masked invaders that are making our communities less safe, the lavish funding persists: