Lauren Brooke Eisen
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Last summer, President Trump's spending and policy package, what he dubbed his Big Beautiful Bill, gave ICE an extra $75 billion.
That's Lauren Brooke Eisen, the senior director of the justice program at the Brennan Center.
She says billions of dollars are going to detaining people, but far less goes to ensure oversight and due process.
After an ICE officer killed Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, Democrats are calling for changes to how ICE operates as Congress looks at new immigration-related spending for 2026.
It's larger than the annual budget of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined.