President Trump and his administration are preparing for a massive expansion of not only deportations of immigrants, but also their mass detention. ICE is now seeking to expand its budget sixfold for the internment of undocumented immigrants. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00President Trump and his administration are preparing for a massive expansion of not only
00:04deportations of immigrants, but also their mass detention. ICE is now seeking some $45 billion
00:10over the next two years, money that will be used to detain and transport undocumented people,
00:15as well as pay for guards, medical care, and other miscellaneous administrative support.
00:20That means that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget would increase six-fold.
00:24This is in addition to the stopgap $500 million they were provided earlier this year.
00:30The most recent GOP budget also seems to see ICE as a big part of its plans moving forward as well.
00:35Senate Republicans approved a budget plan just this week. It would allocate some $175 billion
00:41over the next decade to support immigration enforcement. They are also trying to entice
00:45the Department of Defense to use its own funding for immigration detention, suggesting military-run
00:50facilities could be in the future. With the Vice President for Policy at the National Immigration
00:55Law Center, Heidi Altman, saying about it, quote,
00:57This is the Department of Homeland Security envisioning and getting ready to unroll,
01:02if it gets the money, an entirely new way of imprisoning immigrants in the U.S.
01:06Private for-profit prison companies are already signing contracts to detain immigrants,
01:11suggesting coordination between them and the administration was already underway.