Congress set to hand Trump billions to recruit more ICE agents

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

June 27, 2025, 5:16 PM EDT / Updated June 27, 2025, 5:53 PM EDT


President Donald Trump is on the verge of getting billions of dollars from Congress to recruit and retain agents to carry out the mass deportation campaign that was one of the central promises of his campaign.

Trump has been on a roll in his efforts to combat illegal immigration and remove undocumented immigrants from the country, and both advocates and critics of his plans say that bolstering border security and interior enforcement will make it easier for him to execute on his vision.

The issue, a key tenet of his MAGA movement for a decade, helped him win back the White House in 2024. It remains his strongest issue, with 51% of adults approving of his handling of immigration and 49% disapproving, according to an NBC News Decision Desk poll powered by SurveyMonkey that was released this month.

Illegal border crossings, as he and other administration officials often point out, have dropped precipitously, even without the completion of a long-pursued border wall.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-set-hand-trump-billions-recruit-ice-agents-rcna214990

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Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

[C Moon]

1. And they'll keep this up until the mid-terms, so people of color will be afraid to vote.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Someone is getting very rich off of the ICE scam.

[OrlandoDem2]

8. Private prisons and the ICE "bros".

[Irish_Dem]

3. Congress handing over the US Treasury to Hitler Trump,

To fund the Trump Nazi Gestapo and to make Trump the richest man in the world.

[Mawspam2]

4. Call it the Proud Boys Employment Act of 2025.

[2naSalit]

5. They want...

All the money and power but they also want violence and a civil war so the beatings will continue until they accomplish that goal.

So what are we going to do about it? Being nice hasn't worked for a long time. Are we going to be nice right up to the point we're eliminated?

[joshdawg]

6. Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

Perfect description of the republican party.

[Beck23]

7. Will anyone be left in the country?

[Magoo48]

9. The scam will continue, because there is no enforcement agency willing to take on the orange menace

On the effective side, no number of ICE bullies and bounty hunters will ever be effective. Our Hispanic friends and neighbors most certainly are being abused,, but anyone thinking the cultural fusion can be torn out of the fabric of California life is woefully mistaken. The main job for all of us, here and now, is to support our friends and neighbors in every way possible.
The good news is, creative resistance is boiling up throughout our culture and communities.

[tanyev]

10. There's no money to feed hungry children or seniors,

but by gawd there’s plenty of money to pay gormless thugs to kidnap hard-working laborers and even American citizens.

[Bengus81]

11. Slash and burn Medicaid but billions more for ICE agents to hang out at HD and Ihop.

Sounds about fucking right with these NAZI's.

[Wuddles440]

12. This is really not just about...

funding for their ongoing program of mass abductions and terrorism, but to achieve their ultimate goal of establishing a police state administered by goons and staffed with thugs i.e.Gestapo, Stasi, FSO, etc.

[LaRaven]

17. Pectin's wet dream

I believe this has been his plan of revenge and retaliation since the wall came down. Pure evil has seeped slowly into our country — and the world.
God help us

[azureblue]

13. it's ntot about immigration

it's about Trump building his own private Army.And if we, as the people, and our lazy ass congress people don't put a stop to ICE, we are screwed.

[Simeon Salus]

14. They will, of course, get the JACKBOOTS manufactured in Vietnam

No disrespect to Vietnam intended from this American. I'm sure they will make excellent and inexpensive footware.

[Lonestarblue]

15. I guess the Proud Boys and other domestic terrorists don't work for free.

How many of the January 6 criminals are now ICE agents?

[Cheezoholic]

16. Been buzzing around ICE reddit threads. Polygraph's are now being required on a "risk" assessment only by HR

for many new hires. They used to be required for just about everyone. There are hiring expos going on across the country. While hire expos are normal, I went back through threads before FatAss and the number of people posting and asking questions on how to get in looks like it's tripled. Lots of questions about flunking their Poly's on how to proceed i.e. other field offices/positions. Contractors ramping up pre-hires for detention guards. It's nutz.

[kimbutgar]

18. They want to create a police state where we live in fear

This is bs and we must fight back.

[orangecrush]

19. Gee where will they find so many criminal bigots

Never mind

[Lemon Lyman]

20. -

I love how our media covers this sh*t:

"Trump has been on a roll in his efforts to combat illegal immigration and remove undocumented immigrants..."

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Almost all of them have been mischaracterizing everything he has done

and also intentionally misreporting about what the actual SCOTUS rulings say and what they actually covered, with a few doing a semi-backtrack to try to clarify, but still doing the fawning coverage.

[twodogsbarking]

22. This ain't lookin' good at all.

Trite, but it's all I got at this point.

[Hekate]

23. Just what he always wanted: his own private army. How many more will be hired from that international group...

…that’s already part of ICE?

Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch — private prisons that we already have plus a private army.

[idahoblue]

24. Tax dollar spent with cruelty

Wouldn’t it be tax dollars better spent for more immigration judges and courts, a streamlined way for permanent residents, dreamers, those who have been here for decades, to obtain citizenship?

Are there any estimates on the cost of citizenship compared to the cost of concentration camps and ICE thugs?

[BidenRocks]

25. There comes a time when peaceful does not work.

Expect the internet to go down and the electricity to be cut.
Now what?
Do we all roll over and take it?
Vietnam didn't get me.
I never thought it would be the country I swore to preserve and protect that would kill me.
I'll take point.
"I regret I have but one life to give for my country." Nathan Hale
I second that.

We fund the military.
Are they ready to kill civilians?
They better be really sure this is what they want.

Ice is already using explosives to gain entry.
When will it stop?

This is Terrorism!
Wrapped in an American flag.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

26. What happens to all the ICE agents once the two million pluck-and-chuck goal is reached?

When the anti-choice movement got Roe overturned, they started going after birth control. I predict they'll also go after gay marriage.

In this case, TACO will have a personal army of trained and equipped domestic terrorists, and a SCOTUS which will let him do whatever the hell he wants with them, without any consequence.

This is the Founders worst nightmare -- a nation ruled by a mad king who is seeking world domination.