Trump treats ICE like his personal military. Now it’s funded like one.

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1. From the article:

   >In total, $171 billion has been promised to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. The money will be used:

   >- Hire 10,000 more ICE agents

   >- Open enough detention facilities to hold over 100,000 people

   >- Deputize local law enforcement, militarize the border

   >- Create a $10 billion slush fund for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

   >It also limits the number of immigration judges that can be hired, further clogging the bottleneck of cases in the system, so the administration can deport people before they’re able to see a judge.

   >ICE’s budget has now gone from $8 billion to nearly $75 billion ($30 billion for the agency’s base budget and $45 billion for detention centers), with another $90 billion dedicated to supporting its efforts.

   >To put this in context, funding to support ICE and Trump’s immigration agenda is larger than the military budget of every country in the world, except for the US and China (and it’s a close third).

2. Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

   America is a fascist nation, everything will continue to get worse with no hope of anything getting better

3. Didn’t that Hitler guy have his own private army? I seem to remember something about that, how they terrorized the population and carried our deportations.

   I’m sure I’m wrong, I mean that would mean that we hadn’t learned our lessons from history and that just seems impossible.

   JK we fucked.

4. What’s alarming is the little to no coverage of the fencing off of all government buildings in Washington. It’s like what is fixing to happen.

5. So is this the SA or the SS?

   No way it remains focused only on immigrants with that much funding.

6. Brownshirts are here… Kristallnacht can’t be far off.

7. I wondered how he was going to get his proud boy, oath keeper friends on the streets to control the population, stand back stand by is now rescinded.

8. If you ever wondered what you would have done in Germany during the 1930’s when the Nazis rose to power, you’re doing it right now.

9. He’s circumventing the military command structure, rules and legal oversight, and bringing a federal agency directly under the president up to military levels of armament.

   They’ve also compensated in advance the top 1% for the stock market crashing (presumably) with a trillion dollar tax-cut.

   They’re getting ready.

   How’s you day?

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