ICE, borders and DHS: what’s in Trump’s $70bn immigration crackdown bill?

Bill signed into law by the president bankrolls his mass deportation campaign through the end of his second termDonald Trump signed a new law this week that gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) roughly $70bn in additional funding, bankrolling his mass deportation campaign through the end of his second term in what critics say amounts to a huge blow for accountability.What will this increase in the power of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) mean for the US president’s sweeping anti-immigration agenda? Continue reading...