The Trump administration's first budget plan doesn't include funding for a new border wall or new border patrol agents, but it does significantly increase wasteful spending on immigration detention and enforcement. Importantly, the arbitrary immigration detention bed quota was removed from the funding plan. NIJC's Heidi Altman comments to the San Diego Union-Tribune about immigration detention funding in the budget. Read more.
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