Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ allocates about $170 billion to assist his administration’s border and immigration goals.
Majority of it will go to the Department of Homeland Security and its enforcement agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The budgetary boost will go towards building new detention facilities, hiring immigration agents, and expanding border wall construction.”Build the Wall,” one of Trump’s most iconic and divisive campaign promises, has returned to the forefront of US immigration policy. Although much of the approximately 450 miles (725 kilometres) of wall constructed during his first term replaced existing barriers, the President is now planning new construction over large parts of the nearly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border.
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With $46.5 billion in funding, the administration has already been moving quickly on wall contracts. It includes a $70 million allocation this spring to strengthen barriers in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, while another $309 million has been allocated to a 27-mile stretch in Arizona’s Tucson sector.
It also authorises $45 billion for immigration detention centres and approximately $30 billion for hiring more ICE personnel for transportation expenditures, facility maintenance, among other expenses. The American Immigration Council predicts that the extra financing will increase detention capacity to “at least 116,000 beds.”
The bill also includes an additional $5 billion for Customs and Border Protection facilities and $10 billion for border security initiatives. Approximately $13.5 billion is allocated to reimburse states and local governments involved in immigration and border enforcement.
The Justice Department was allocated more than $3 billion for immigration-related activities. This includes employing more immigration judges to address the expanding case backlog, which stood at nearly 4 million cases in April, according to the most recent data available.
After the bill was passed, House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement, “Republicans in Congress have succeeded in our mission to enact President Trump’s America First agenda.”
Noting that almost all Republican lawmakers voted in favour, Donald Trump stated, “The Republicans in the House of Representatives have just passed the ‘ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT.” Our Party is UNITED like never before, and our Country is “HOT.”
“We are going to have a Signing Celebration at the White House tomorrow, at 4 P.M. EST. All Congressmen/women and Senators are invited. Together, we will celebrate our Nation’s Independence and the beginning of our new Golden Age. The people of the United States of America will be Richer, Safer, and Prouder than ever before,” he wrote on Truth Social.
