Overview

• ICE and Homeland Security have begun issuing contracts for new detention facilities and awarded initial border wall construction projects in the Rio Grande Valley.
• The legislation triples ICE’s hiring budget, funding campaigns to recruit tens of thousands of new agents and support staff.
• More than $46 billion has been allocated to build or reinforce hundreds of miles of barriers along the US–Mexico frontier.
• It includes $45 billion to expand detention capacity from roughly 41,000 beds to as many as 125,000.
• Observers caution that the unprecedented enforcement build-out may outpace oversight and trigger more aggressive operations in nonborder states.