- $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities. This represents a 265 percent annual budget increase to ICE’s current detention budget. It is a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system and could result in daily detention of at least 116,000 non-citizens.
Imagine if that kind of money were spent making people’s lives better, instead of deliberately making people’s lives worse at no benefit to anyone.
“Government efficiency” my ass.