Trump’s Deportation Agenda Is About to Get a $70 Billion Infusion From Congress

With virtually no strings attached, Congress is on the verge of providing a sizable infusion of cash to the Department of Homeland Security to power President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, the Associated Press reports. The roughly $70 billion would dramatically expand ICE detention capacity, agent hiring, and enforcement operations nationwide — a scale of funding that watchdogs say will entrench the detention buildout for years.