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Trump's bill allocated 170 billion dollars to ICE. That figure is greater than annual defense spending of every country in the world other than US and China. I believe it's spread over four years, so amortized over that time period it would have more budget than all but 12 countries in the world.

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To put into perspective of how insanely huge this is, Trump is about to bail out US Farmers who have been hit by Trump's trade wars. How much? $10 billion.

That means trump is spending 17x the farm bailout on ICE. That's insanity.

That $10 bil is coming out of our pockets.

Insanity is a politician actually doing what he said he'd do, and was elected to do.

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