--- title: The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Add to ICE’s Budget description: The bill stands to significantly expand the capabilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). canonical: https://time.com/7299360/big-beautiful-bill-trump-ice-immigration/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-07-01T20:27:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2025-07-05T00:27:33.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Add Billions to ICE’s Budget og:description: Under the Senate version of the bill, the agency would receive an infusion of more than $100 billion through 2029. og:url: https://time.com/7299360/big-beautiful-bill-trump-ice-immigration/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53e72989e21ccda4/6998c7ebe1ba003aab98db47/ice-immigration-enforcement.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Asylum Seeking Migrants Wait In Line For Immigration Customs Enforcement Appointments og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Add Billions to ICE’s Budget twitter:description: Under the Senate version of the bill, the agency would receive an infusion of more than $100 billion through 2029. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53e72989e21ccda4/6998c7ebe1ba003aab98db47/ice-immigration-enforcement.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Pour Billions Into ICE’s Budget > Sponsored content. 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Democrats were unable to stop Republicans from getting their tax-cuts-and-spending plan across the finish line on Tuesday, and it now advances to the U.S. House of Representatives. In response to the news that Senate passed the "Big, Beautiful Bill," President Donald Trump said that he thinks the bill will "go up easier" in the House. Trump made the remarks while he was visiting a new temporary immigration detention center in Florida’s Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”_ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jul 5, 2025 12:27 AM UTCPublished: Jul 1, 2025 8:27 PM UTC A bleary-eyed Lisa Murkowski exited the Republican whip’s office early Tuesday morning with a coffee in hand, after more than 24 straight hours of backroom negotiations over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill. “It’s in the hands of the people that operate the copy machine,” the Alaska Senator quipped, signaling that she planned to flip her vote and deliver the final commitment GOP leaders needed to secure passage. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jul 5, 2025 12:27 AM UTCPublished: Jul 1, 2025 8:27 PM UTC Republican leaders in the House are set to vote Wednesday on [President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”](https://time.com/7299226/big-beautiful-bill-senate-trump-murkowski/), which would significantly increase funding for federal immigration enforcement as the Trump Administration pursues an aggressive deportation agenda. The Senate narrowly [approved the bill](https://time.com/7299226/big-beautiful-bill-senate-trump-murkowski/) on Tuesday, with Vice President J.D. Vance serving as a tie-breaker, sending the package to the House of Representatives. If the lower chamber passes it with no changes, it will go to Trump’s desk for his signature. Trump's hailed the Senate vote as [“music to my ears.”](https://www.news.com.au/national/music-to-my-ears-trump-reacts-to-big-beautiful-bill-passing-senate-vote/video/9836080597756caeed47823d1ca47ddf) Still, the package has drawn bipartisan pushback, and in its current form, would add nearly $3.3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan [Congressional Budget Office](https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61534) (CBO). ## Bill would pour $100 billion into ICE and border enforcement In terms of immigration, the bill stands to significantly expand the capabilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). ICE’s current annual budget is around $10 billion. Under the version of the bill that passed the Senate, the agency would receive an infusion of more than $100 billion through 2029: $45 billion for detention facilities, $46 billion for border wall operations in the U.S.-Mexico border and $14 billion for deportation operations. The agency, which currently has about 6,000 deportation officers, would also receive billions of dollars more to hire an additional 10,000 new agents by 2029. ## Asylum seekers face new fees under Trump bill The bill also creates a new minimum $100 fee for those seeking asylum (The fee was $1,000 in the House version.) **Read more:** [_The Three Republican Senators Who Voted Against Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'_](https://time.com/7299324/trump-big-beautiful-bill-republican-senators/) The appropriations come as Trump has sought to dramatically increase the arrest and deportation of migrants. In just a few short months under Trump,[ ICE arrests have gone up 25%](https://time.com/7292939/trump-deportations-ice-arrests/). In May, Trump’s senior advisor Stephen Miller says that ICE should be performing 3,000 arrests a day. It has struggled to reach those quotas amid overcrowded detention facilities and a backlog of cases in immigration courts. In a recent [interview](https://time.com/7291757/trump-deportation-ice-el-salvador/) with TIME, Trump border czar Tom Homan said he would like to double the amount of bed space ICE has in detention from 50,000 to 100,000\. The Administration is working to build more facilities and has side-stepped the courts in some cases to ramp up deportations, drawing lawsuits. On Tuesday, as Senate Republicans were negotiating over the bill’s details ahead of a final vote, Trump flew to Florida to visit the state’s new federally funded [Alligator Alcatraz](https://time.com/7297505/florida-alligator-alcatraz-migrant-detention-center/), a new migrant detention center deep in the Everglades that’s set to temporarily house migrants awaiting deportation. **Read more:** [_Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and the Supreme Court Put Planned Parenthood Funding in Jeopardy_](https://time.com/7299281/big-beautiful-bill-planned-parenthood-funding-trump-supreme-court/) ## Protests grow as polls show skepticism over deportation surge Republican plans to surge ICE’s funding comes on the heels of protests in Los Angeles that spread around the country in response to recent ICE raids and arrests in that city and elsewhere. [Polls suggest](https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/u-s-attacks-on-iran-july-2025/) a majority of Americans (54%) believe ICE operations have gone “too far.” The protests spurred criticism of Trump’s use of the military and federal funds to quell public disapproval of these policies, after his Administration [directed the California National Guard and the Marines](https://time.com/7291978/los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump-national-guard-deployed-newsom-backlash/) to aid in protecting ICE operations. Under the legislation Republicans are working to pass, Trump’s capabilities to expand migrant arrests and deportations would only grow. ## Transcript [00:00] We are already hearing from some Republicans in the House who say they [00:03] cannot get on board with the changes that were made to the bill in the Senate. [00:06] What is your message to those holdouts? [00:08] Well, I just heard that about the Senate and the bill just passed. [00:11] And it tells you there's something for everyone. [00:14] I mean, we have it's a great bill. [00:16] There is something for everyone. [00:18] And I think it's going to go very nicely in the house. 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