re: ICE 3rd largest defense budget in world after BBB passage

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That is insanely stupid

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I think part of it has the potential to be dumb depending on how it is handled. They're setting aside somewhere around $45 billion+ for the wall and other border improvements. Let's not get too carried away with ourselves and start seriously believing that this tiger has changed its stripes. That portion of the immigration funding will, no doubt, be ripe for waste and grift. They better have some damn good oversight in place and not go of half-cocked.

Factored into that equation is the success this administration has had with shutting down the border and stopping the flow of illegal crossings without new laws or billions of dollars more funding. They've shown what CAN be done with simple effort and a desire to uphold the laws we have. There will be no excuses if they somehow frick this up.

The most important aspect, which addresses the real bottleneck in our immigration system, is the new funding of ~1.25 billion for the immigration courts. We have too few judges and EVERYTHING about the process takes way too long. Again, they better damn well have an actual plan that efficiently injects that money into the system. In a few years we should hear no more about massive delays or it taking years for people to have court dates to resolve issues.

Everything is sunshine and rainbows when you're throwing absurd (to normal people) numbers up on the screen. At the end of the day, these are still the same people that have repeatedly shown how truly incompetent they can be.