ICE says it needs a $1 billion funding boost to meet Trump’s deportation goals - Polidicks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/ice-says-it-needs-a-1-billion-funding-boost-to-meet-trumps-aggressive-deportation-goals/2018/09/13/179819b2-b6c0-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4e9b1881136e U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aggressively lobbying for an additional $1 billion to boost deportations to their highest levels yet under President Trump, according to a budget document obtained by The Washington Post. The agency urged Congress last month to include the extra funds in a stopgap spending measure that lawmakers must pass to avoid a government shutdown when the new fiscal year starts Oct. 1. On Thursday, congressional leaders from both political parties agreed to postpone a fight over Trump’s plan for building a border wall until after the November elections. The deal would keep the government open using a series of spending bills, including a “continuing resolution” that would fund federal agencies through Dec. 7. ICE asked Congress to include the $1 billion increase in the continuing resolution. In the funding request, officials said they anticipated deporting more than 253,000 immigrants during the next fiscal year, which goes from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 2019. That would be the government’s highest target since 2014, when the Obama administration expelled more than 300,000. Recent statistics show the administration is on track this year to deport substantially more than the 226,000 immigrants deported in 2017, though final numbers won’t be available for several weeks. Officials are deporting roughly 20,000 immigrants a month, and had expelled more than 191,000 as of June 30. Without the extra money, officials warned in the request, they may be forced to suspend arrests and deportations of people deemed “threats to public safety” until Congress passes a full spending bill. Officials also said that thousands of immigrants detained in federal custody may suffer “reductions in services” if Congress denies the funding, though they did not provide specifics. Katie Waldman, spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said the proposed $1 billion increase mirrors the agency’s $8.2 billion budget request for fiscal 2019. Democrats have been sharply critical of ICE’s spending and are unlikely to provide the votes needed to approve such a sizable increase. But officials and advocates say the request is a sign that the Trump administration is forging ahead with his hard-line immigration platform and will use it to rally support for Republican candidates in the November midterm elections. A CNN poll in August found that 77 percent of registered voters said immigration would be “very” or “extremely” important in deciding which candidate to vote for in November, trailing only the economy and health care. In the request, immigration officials said they need the extra money to cover rising costs associated with arrests and deportations. Officials say this year they’ve detained an average of 43,000 immigrants a day, slightly more than Congress authorized in the current budget. Advocates for immigrants urged Congress to deny the additional funding, saying ICE has been scolded by fiscal watchdogs for past cost overruns. Typically, they say, stopgap spending measures maintain agencies’ funding to keep operations going. Trump praised immigration and border agents at the White House last month amid calls from some Democrats to abolish ICE. “My pledge to each of you is that my administration will not rest until you have the resources, the tools, and the authorities you need to do your job, and do it properly and do it strong,” he said. “You’re saving lives.”

Watch the Trump admin give it to them.

"We need more money." "you're doing terrible things! go to hell!" "... We're waiting."

"Small government" "Fiscal responsibility" etc etc. You know the drill.

I hope more and more cities and counties just tell ICE to fuck off. Its a massive waste of state tax payer money, and I'm glad our city's mayor told them to finally fuck off and stop overcrowding the prison with illegals.

Democrats run most big cities so maybe that'll help.

Cut their budget by 100%. Put the funds into FEMA and Medicare.

imagine spending so much money to proactively cripple your own economy galaxy brain

I thought they didn't have an immigration deportation quota

Just steal the rest of it from FEMA. Nobody ever dies in hurricanes anyway. /s

Look at all that money spent to ruin all those lives.

Without the extra money, officials warned in the request, they may be forced to suspend arrests and deportations of people deemed “threats to public safety” until Congress passes a full spending bill. "we ran out of money deporting people who weren't threats to public safety so we need more money to actually protect people."

So they'll get this money to deport even more people but the rest of USCIS gets nothing while people are now waiting up to 9 months for work permits that used to get approved within 3? BS.

Wait, 43 Thousand people detained everyday? How? That's kind of a lot of people. Where are they even finding them?

The party of small government lllmmmaaaooo

everywhere

43,000 people detained in detention centers every day.

That makes a lot more sense because we'd be detaining 31,390,000 people over the past 3 years at that rate or roughly 1/5 of mexico's population and I don't think a billion dollars would've cut it