Grassley Just Handed ICE $38 Billion. Here's the Fine Print.
Senate Judiciary Committee language would fund migrant mass removal machine through 2029.
WASHINGTON — The paper is out. Now comes the reckoning.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released the legislative text of his committee’s title of the Republican reconciliation bill Monday night — a document that would funnel nearly $39.2 billion toward immigration enforcement, lock in ICE and CBP funding through the end of the Trump presidency, and erect a new wall of fees designed to price migrants out of every legal pathway available to them.
Combined with a separate $32.5 billion from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the total package comes to roughly $69.2 billion — with ICE alone set to receive approximately $38.2 billion.
The Judiciary title would cover ICE hiring and training, transportation, information technology, and funding for so-called 287(g) agreements — the program that deputizes local police departments to carry out federal immigration enforcement.
An additional $750 million would go to the Federal Law Enforcement Train…