Emma Cwalinski’s Reviews > Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition > Status Update

“ICE was routinely overspending its budget in enforcement and detention. Before it ran out of money, it would transfer funds from other parts of DHS, merely notify Congress they were doing so, then use the inflated numbers at a starting point for the next year’s spending negotiations. From 2016-18, this afforded ICE nearly $1 billion in additional funding.”

We’re really living under the most evil system 😭