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The Senate has passed a bill making Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the U.S.'s largest interior law enforcement agency with funding for Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda higher than most of the world's militaries, including Israel's.

Pending its passage in the House of Representatives, Trump's bill could mean a massive increase in ICE funding as part of an immigration enforcement agenda worth $150 billion over four years.

This figure is more than the annual military budget of Italy, which at $30.8 billion, is the world's 16th highest defense spender for this year according to tracker Global Fire Power.

It is also higher than military spending for Israel, ($30 billion), the Netherlands ($27 billion) and Brazil ($26.1 billion).

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 hours ago

Is anyone still pretending ICE is about immigration? ICE is Trump's SS, and they just got funding beyond any dictator's wildest dreams. Good luck with your totalitarian police state.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

So now they are the biggest millitary and paramilitary spender. Cool.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Seems like it’s time to for people to learn about sustained direct action campaigns.

Rev Left Radio had a great interview earlier this year with a member of Palestine Action about their extremely successful direct action campaign against Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit. While the media would have you believe that Palestine Action is an ineffective bunch of clowns, they have already forced the closure of two weapons factories in England and forced Barclays Bank to divest from Elbit through sustained sabotage campaigns. Their incredible success is the actual reason the UK government has named them a terrorist organization, not just for spray painting some planes.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=Palestine+action

For legal reasons, I am not encouraging anyone to break any laws.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Love Rev Left, recommended listening for everyone

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

Good, service guarantees citizenship and the way things are going, the Greatestest and Bestest Democraciest Peaciest and Freedomest Country in the Whole Wide Universe will need some ~~cannon fodder~~ highly qualified personnel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

also less organized and disciplined, these are also going to be filled with military rejects too, not good enough for the military types.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Border control has historically hired the least qualified people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

There are cops, who are bad enough in general and then there are those that couldn't become cops. If you can't make that cut imagine what you can do now that you're Gestapo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Even more so when you remember that the original "we need to get rid of all those immigrants" argument stemmed from migrants costing the country too much money.

Trillions for deportation. Not one penny for infrastructure or social services.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 25 minutes ago

The ICE budget is free college for everyone like 3 times over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

If you replace the PLA with ICE, its enough budget to invade Taiwan.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago

Remember when republican bitches about how much we spent on immigration?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Well we were the most prosperous country in the world while being racist to the hilt. I'm guessing the GOP thinks that might be the secret sauce.

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