Sunday, July 20th, 2025 (schwartzreport.net)
Newly Flush With Cash, ICE Races to Build Migrant Tent Camps
Author: Michelle Hackman and Elizabeth Finde
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Publication Date: July 19, 2025 | 8:00 am ET
Link: Newly Flush With Cash, ICE Races to Build Migrant Tent Camps
Stephan:
The ICE Gestapo is now the largest funded, biggest enforcement agency in American history, and, with its Republican Congressional funding now in place, aspiring dictator Trump and his administration have begun the process of building the concentration camps, where they can “disappear” tens of thousands of people, as I predicted they would. Can the United States still be considered a law-abiding democracy?
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WASHINGTON, D.C. —With an overnight tripling of its annual budget and intensifying pressure to increase deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racing to expand its detention space with temporary tentlike structures, despite safety warnings.
Trump administration officials have identified limited detention space as one of the major chokepoints preventing them from stepping up deportations as quickly as President Trump has promised. They hope a new $45 billion for detention through the end of his term will help them get to 100,000 beds by the end of the year, up from roughly 40,000 when Trump took office. ICE’s plan was laid out in several internal documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and described by administration officials familiar with the effort.
The infusion of cash came as part of the Republican tax-and-spending package passed by Congress this month. Congress gave ICE $74 billion to spend by […]
