ICE Slams Laken Riley Act as 'Impossible to Execute'

Katie Britt's unfunded immigration bill would cost over $86 billion for three years, per DHS estimates.

WASHINGTON — ICE estimates that implementing the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act cost over $86 billion over three years, an enormous figure in its own right — but especially staggering alongside the initial cost estimates by House Republicans of $3 billion per year when Speaker Mike Johnson put the bill on the floor last week. The estimate ballooned over the weekend after the House passed the controversial overhaul of federal and state immigration authorities with broad bipartisan support from Democrats.