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 will save money in the long term since we won’t have to arrest, try and jail the criminals in question. And, as a bonus, think of all the citizens who won’t have to spend money burying their
Too long, didn’t read. 3 Billion? That’s ‘accounting dust’ in D.C.
So, okay, fine.
We’ll take it out of social programs supporting “undocumented migrants”
Oh, and for context if you din’t think we can do that, see New York City.
Undocumented migrants cost NYC $5 billion in 2 years; cost expected to double by 2025
https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/undocumented-migrants-cost-nyc-5-billion-cost-expected-to-double-by-2025-new-york-city-border-harris-biden
Do it on a bounty basis. For every one you kick back over the border, you get a fixed bounty plus six months of whatever the federal government would have blown on him in future freebies: Obamaphone, EBT, lodging, the works. High scorer every month gets a week’s paid vacation in beautiful Argentina.
How much money would ICE need to enforce the L Riley Act if the Biden adminstration had enforced the border?
Asking for a friend!
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.
Uh … that’s more than $53,000 per bed. What are these illegals getting, individual rooms in 4 star hotels until they are finally puked out of this country?
Congress needs to haul in the POSs responsible for this BS scare memo and grill the living hell out of them, followed by their quick firing/defunding.
Just set up Sheriff Arpaio type prisons. Military tents for shelter, cots and blankets for the illegal aliens to sleep, cold bulk cereal for breakfast ( maybe oatmeal on cold days), soup and sandwich for lunch and stew for dinner. Only the very basic and needed amenities. Place them on the border for easier deportation.
Money problems? Easy peasy!
Tax remittances that are mailed overseas. Mexico received around $52 billion in 2022.
Trump talked about doing this in 2017 but nothing happened.
Even taxing remittances at 10% would pay for quite a bit of border security and immigration enforcement.
Got to love government agencies…. they view this as a new pile of money to appropriate and misuse. No mention of all the agents who can now move back to do their original jobs, or the net positive of enforcing existing law, immediate deportations and preventing illegal entry in the first place.
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?
1) Make E-verify mandatory for both employment and government benefits.
2) Double or triple the fines for employers who hire illegal aliens.
3) Ban any person not legally present in the USA from having an account of any kind at any federally insured financial institution. No savings account, no checking account, no credit card account and certainly no housing or auto loans.
4) Nobody illegally present in the USA can own real estate.
5) Pass a law that says anyone illegally present in the USA after a drop dead date will never be eligible for citizenship.
Make it difficult and consequential for them to stay and many will self deport.
That would be a great inconvenience to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who have US bank accounts and who aren’t present in the USA at all, and thus are not lawfully present here. So change it to “any person present unlawfully”.
I doubt you could legally do that.
Mexico does it whether you’re legal or illegal.
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.
Perhaps we could get a lot to self-deport, if those rounded up were held in camps on Greenland, pursuant to a deal with them. I also think that should be a material transmittance tax on money sent home by these people, allowable an an estimated tax payment credit on Federal tax returns.
Yep. Three reforms needed at minimum.
1. Make it a felony to remain in the USA without lawful permission. That covers visa over stays and illegal crossings.
2. Make it a misdemeanor to aid/assist those unlawfully present in the USA. 6 month min sentence and $5K fine each instance.
3. Make RICO applicable to individuals and entities who provide aid/assistance to those unlawfully present.
Plenty of NG Camps in Red.States to house detained illegal aliens. Tents with multiple chain link fence can do the job. If it’s good enough for Soldiers it is good enough for detained illegal aliens.
Are you going to require citizens to carry ID and proof of citizenship as well? “Papier Bitte”? I’m not sure you can, and even if you can I don’t think you’d want to.
Ha ha! Like we don’t already have 99+% “voluntary” compliance with it already!
Well … it did not used to be a problem because states understood that they were not allowed to give licenses and other paperwork to illegal aliens. But they changed that and they changed to do exactly what you are taking about – to make sure that Americans cannot be differentiated from illegal aliens by normal paperwork that people need to carry on regular, legal existences.
In fact, some states are so treasonous that they not only illegally give illegals licenses and other paperwork but then destroy files so that no later administration can look at the paperwork to easily identify many illegals.
The people who did this are traitors and have worked very hard to make sure that any crackdown on illegals would have to affect Americans, too, because this is just part of their war on America. They need, eventually, to be held responsible for their treason and punished appropriately.
Not unless you can first detect and discover that they are aliens.
Also you’d have to change the law to make illegal presence a crime, because right now it isn’t one. But that’s a small hurdle compared to the rest of it.
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.
Take it from $$$ that Pudding Brain earmarked for Ukraine
So stop forking out money to put the illegal alien criminals up in four star hotels and spend the money on kicking their asses out of the country instead
Notice that ICE calls illegal aliens “non-citizens”, a change from the previous term “undocumented migrant”. If they are a non-citizen today they can easily become a citizen tomorrow.
ICE will need more $$$ to enforce this new law and ICE also claims that having to devote resources to aliens who commit crimes against property will take those resources away from pursuing worse offenders.
This is a good example of the kinds of things that entrenched bureaucrats will do to undermine Trump for the next four years.
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