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Trump and MAGA are making this key federal agency 'miserable' -- and it's only getting worse
The Trump Administration, with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is pushing mass layoffs at a variety of federal government agencies — from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to the National Weather Service (NWS). And President Donald Trump is toying with the idea of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) altogether.
But one agency that President Donald Trump clearly isn't defunding is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Trump's "big, beautiful bill," which he signed into law over the 4th of July Weekend, includes $178 billion for immigration enforcement over the next decade — with much of that money going to ICE, which will become the largest law enforcement agency in the United States.
But the fact that ICE is receiving a great deal of funding doesn't necessarily mean that its employees are happy.
In an article published on July 10, The Atlantic's Nick Miroff explains why many ICE employees are "miserable" — funding and all.
"ICE occupies an exalted place in President Donald Trump's hierarchy of law enforcement," Miroff explains. "He praises the bravery and fortitude of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — 'the toughest people you'll ever meet,' he says — and depicts them as heroes in the central plot of his presidency, helping him rescue the country from an invasion of gang members and mental patients. The 20,000 ICE employees are the unflinching men and women who will restore order. They're the Untouchables in his MAGA crime drama. The reality of Trump's mass-deportation campaign is far less glamorous."
But one agency that President Donald Trump clearly isn't defunding is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Trump's "big, beautiful bill," which he signed into law over the 4th of July Weekend, includes $178 billion for immigration enforcement over the next decade — with much of that money going to ICE, which will become the largest law enforcement agency in the United States.
But the fact that ICE is receiving a great deal of funding doesn't necessarily mean that its employees are happy.
In an article published on July 10, The Atlantic's Nick Miroff explains why many ICE employees are "miserable" — funding and all.
"ICE occupies an exalted place in President Donald Trump's hierarchy of law enforcement," Miroff explains. "He praises the bravery and fortitude of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — 'the toughest people you'll ever meet,' he says — and depicts them as heroes in the central plot of his presidency, helping him rescue the country from an invasion of gang members and mental patients. The 20,000 ICE employees are the unflinching men and women who will restore order. They're the Untouchables in his MAGA crime drama. The reality of Trump's mass-deportation campaign is far less glamorous."
https://www.alternet.org/ice-agents-trump-miller-atlantic/]
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in addition to throwing money at the mass deportation effort.
thingy in an abundance of caution
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wants-10-000-more-003256236.html
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