ICE Warns Agency Needs Over $3 Billion to Implement Laken Riley Act
Sen. Britt: “We’re prepared to give ICE the resources it needs to properly enforce federal law and protect American families, both through the appropriations and reconciliation processes.”
According to Politico, ICE warned Congress just days before the Senate votes on the Laken Riley Act.
The agency sent a three-page memo to Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), answering questions he sent them last month.
ICE would need over $3 billion in funding. It could also lead to the release of more illegal aliens due to lack of room.
Should Congress enact the Laken Riley Act, ERO would require additional FY 2025 funding in the amount of $14,799,526 for personnel and associated tactical equipment-specifically for this proposed legislative requirement. This amount allows ERO to implement ten new MCAT teams (61 positions) across eight field offices within the United States and one HQ law enforcement officer. Furthermore, increasing detention capacity by more than 60,000 beds will require a funding increase of approximately $3.2 billion in the Custody Operations PPA. This amount assumes a five percent inflationary increase above the FY 2024 enacted bed cost appropriation.
ICE also told Green that uncooperative jurisdictions could hinder the agency from implementing the Act (emphasis mine):
Should Congress pass the Laken Riley Act, the bill would require the Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue a detainer for an alien…and, if the alien is not otherwise detained by Federal, State, or local officials, shall effectively and expeditiously take custody of the alien.” A complicating factor is a lack of cooperation from ICE’s state and local law enforcement partners. With the enactment of the Laken Riley Act, ERO would be compelled to allocate these limited resources to “expeditiously” identifying and arresting those noncitizens accused of, or convicted of, crimes against property, negating the prioritization of more egregious offenders.
Well, let’s remind ICE why Congress wrote this bill.
The legislation, named after Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley, would mandate the government “detaining” illegal aliens “charged with theft or burglary.”
Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard found illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, guilty of murdering Riley.
According to Fox News, the NYPD arrested Ibarra “a year after he entered the U.S. in August 2023 and was ‘charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation.’”
So do we wait until someone commits a heinous crime or nip it in the bud right away?
How many true crime shows have we seen where a victim ends up dead or brutalized because no one did anything?
“We’re prepared to give ICE the resources it needs to properly enforce federal law and protect American families, both through the appropriations and reconciliation processes,” said Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) told Politico.
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Who even cares if you mulch them at this point?
Seems ICE needs replacement also, got lazy, got bought
New czar in town , Mr Freeze Homan
Just how much do you
Think the illegals
Have already cost America?
A hell of a lot more
We have AMPLE resources to deport every illegal in the country without spending an additional single red cent: The US Military. Carve out an exception under Posse Comitatus to allow the US military to round-up and deport illegal aliens. A carveout should be made that allows the military to patrol a 10-mile zone contiguous with our national borders. We don’t need to grow the federal bureaucracy. We need to start utilizing resources we’re already paying for to execute critical missions that directly relate to our national defense.
Of course, no one will do this because no one really wants to deport these people. Big Business has spoken: It loves the cheap labor.
They need to let the military carry ammo to protect themselves. I don’t know how many times overseas during peace time the locals knew we didn’t have live ammo while training and would do what ever they wanted. Can’t beat their asses either as you end up in a local third world prison if you can’t get back to camp or ship. Never mind the ROE those kids will be put under. “Are you sure your squad mate is really bleeding because he got shot at or did he trip and fall on a cactus? If he was shot you are now authorized to go back to the ammo supply point to sign for 5 rounds.” That would be so politicized and under scrutiny by the liberal media, with the media giving away patrol locations like when Geraldo Rivera did it in Iraq on live TV,
If we just cut all the dei crap out of every government agency and department I’m sure we can process and deport almost all the illegals starting with the criminal element.
They are definitely posturing to get as big a budget as possible like any other government agency, but you gotta pay them at least 50% of that and get this done for the good of the country.
It will take another 3 billion to properly enforce the law. That’s quite a statement.
They should put in expedited trials and minimal detainment periods for these lowlifes. Expedited Export to their source countries.
Has anyone heard of anyone self deporting in any numbers yet?
Unless they can prove they are in this country legally; i.e. by presenting a valid visa or properly stamped passport, then there should be no “detainment” at all. Not legal? Out the door you came in at.
Change the law to require any alien, and include students and tourists, to have on their person *at all times* proof of their legal status and valid ID from their home country.
Inform the globe that their citizens are not welcome to be here illegally and that these governments will be charged the expenses of deporting their citizens. Inform Mexico and Canada that unless they tighten their borders, they will be charged an equivalent amount.
There is no reason to have a separate, incredibly expensive justice system just to deal with illegals. Their mere presence is the crime and requires no detection or discovery; if you can see their faces, the crime is proven.
An important point is that THERE IS NO PUNISHMENT INVOLVED for this crime, just removal, so there should be few moral concerns about “justice”.
The law already requires aliens to have their passports and visas (when applicable) on their persons at all times. The problems are A) there are no mandatory criminal or civil penalties for violating that provision of law nor does violating that specific law really have any adverse impact at any future deportation hearing (two things that Congress could change, if it wanted to) . And, B) the VAST majority of law enforcement contact with aliens happens at the state & local levels, usually by large urban police agencies that have policies that forbid alerting ICE.
The only people who have any possibility of getting deported are aliens arrested out in rural America or those who are caught up by federal law enforcement. With respect to the number of people actually deported by Trump in the next 11-months (and not counting new people caught crossing the border, only counting those already here), I’m skeptical he’ll be able to deport 100K aliens in 2025 and probably no more than 200K in 2026…at best.
Reprogram DEI funds that Border Patrol already has. If that’s not enough, look to funds already in the budget to wipe their noses or their a**es. Establish immigration courts whose only authority is to determine if the illegals are eligible for asylum. That decision is not subject to appellate review, and if the answer is NO, return to sender and permanently bar them from legal entry or status.
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