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Oversight Committee Democrats say ICE budget surge followed July law, cite dashboard of incidents
Summary
An unidentified Oversight Committee Democrat displayed a chart saying a law passed in July cut health and food assistance to free funds for immigration enforcement, claiming ICE's budget rose from under $6 billion a decade ago to more than $85 billion last year and citing 470 incidents on a party dashboard, 186 involving force.
An unidentified member speaking for Oversight Committee Democrats displayed a chart and said a law passed in July cut "hundreds of billions of dollars" from health care and food assistance and that the money was used to expand immigration enforcement.
The speaker said the funding shift made U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "the highest funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States," and provided specific figures: "10 years ago, the ICE budget was less than $6,000,000,000. Last year,…
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