ICE’s Budget - $2Billion Short?
The agency charged with carrying out President Trump's mass deportation promises has warned Congress it is short $2 billion for this fiscal year. Congress will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) an extra $500 million in the stop-gap spending bill that passed last week, but that will not come close to covering what the agency says it needs just to conduct day-to-day operations through September, let alone fulfilling President Trump's plans of surging hiring, doubling ICE detention space, and adding many more planes for deportation flights.