“The budget shows the misplaced priorities of this administration, where they are cutting health care and cutting vital programs for people across the country, and putting all of this money into a domestic terrible force,” says Brandon Lee of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. “And it shows the cruelty that the Trump administration intends to enact on all people in the United States.” The $14 billion annual budget for detentions is also more than Trump’s requested budget for the Labor Department ($8.6 billion), or the Environmental Protection Agency ($4.2 billion). I think the police that are supporting ICE are terrorists.” In addition to the deployment of federal agents, Trump is moving to deploy 300 members of the National Guard to the Chicago area, after a previous effort failed in the face of opposition.
Author: Sarah Lazare and Lindsay Koshgarian
Published at: 2025-10-05 23:00:00
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