President Trump and House Republicans have expressed their commitment to enhancing national security and restoring immigration integrity. The Judiciary Committee has passed reconciliation provisions that aim to deliver essential resources for these priorities.
The committee's provisions allocate funding for at least 1 million annual removals, the hiring of 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel, and maintaining a detention capacity for an average daily population of at least 100,000 aliens. Additionally, a series of fees will provide funding and resources to various agencies.
Funding is designated for ICE, CBP, USCIS, and EOIR to expand detention facilities, deportations, and enforcement staffing. This includes hiring additional ICE officers and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) criminal investigators. There is also financial support for at least 1 million deportations via ground and air transportation.
Further funding supports more detention beds, enforcement of the "Remain in Mexico" policy, screening unaccompanied children for gang affiliations, and hiring government lawyers to expedite removals. Permanent fees are codified for immigration services to ensure cost recovery while reducing the federal deficit.
New immigration fees include a $1,000 asylum application fee—the first in U.S. history—and various other charges related to immigration processes such as work permits, Temporary Protected Status applications, diversity visa applications, appeals in immigration cases, and more.
Conservative priorities focus on shifting adjudication costs from American taxpayers to aliens with projections indicating tens of billions in federal deficit reduction over ten years. The funds raised will either support agency operations or contribute to deficit reduction.
These measures aim to provide critical funding and resources for immigration enforcement agencies like ICE, CBP, USCIS, and EOIR. They emphasize self-sustaining immigration services while enforcing current laws to secure communities responsibly.
President Trump has pledged to secure the border and deport violent criminal illegal aliens as part of this agenda.
