Since January 2025, Congress has given Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) roughly $85 billion in taxpayer funding, making it the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency. This funding is enabling ICE’s massive detention expansion, while the Trump administration guts federal oversight offices. The result is a detention system that places hundreds of thousands of people and their families in the crosshairs of an expansive authoritarian administration.
This resource briefly summarizes ICE’s contracting moves and policy changes, many intended to skirt Congressional oversight and accountability. Congress must step in before it’s too late.