Washington’s Deportation Jackpot

The biggest immigration story no one is talking about is the funding.

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are quietly advancing what could become the largest expansion of immigration enforcement funding in U.S. history—between $175 billion and $345 billion in real taxpayer dollars. All of it teed up to underwrite a deportation regime engineered to hum through the next administration—and likely the one after that.

Lawmakers are calling it “border.” That’s the pitch. But in reality? Bro Culture is demanding a national interior enforcement matrix powered by mass surveillance, mass detention, and mass deportation—facilitated by experimental AI tools and led by Stephen Miller. It sounds like a Bill Melugin fever dream, but it’s not. It’s the federal budget.