Why Hiring 10,000 New ICE Agents Is A Bad Idea

为何雇佣1万名新ICE执法人员是个糟糕主意

What A Day

2025-07-14

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President Donald Trump’s new spending and tax law is set to balloon the budget for immigration and detention enforcement. With an extra $170 billion over the next four years, the government is hoping to hire 10 thousand new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, build new detention facilities, and otherwise ramp up every aspect of arrests and removals. In fact, under the new spending plan, ICE will become the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government. Garrett Graff is a historian and longtime politics and national security reporter who currently writes the ‘Doomsday Scenario’ newsletter. He joins us to talk about why dramatically expanding the federal immigration enforcement budget so quickly is a bad idea. And in headlines: President Trump threatened new tariffs on Mexico and the European Union, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pushed back on critical reports of her handling of the response to the deadly Texas floods, and the State Department laid off more than 1,000 staffers. Show Notes: Check out Garrett's work – https://tinyurl.com/33p63f8vLong Shadow: The Lingering Questions of 9/11 –https://tinyurl.com/32bdmpnyCall Congress – 202-224-3121Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/3kk4nyz8What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcastFollow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday
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  • It's Monday, July 14th.

  • I'm Jane Costen, and this is What A Day,

  • the show that thinks that President Donald Trump waking up on a Saturday morning and posting that he thinks Rosie O'Donnell should have her citizenship revoked would be kind of an amusing side note

  • if he were not the President of the United States of America who already wants to end birthright citizenship and deport U.S. citizens.

  • On today's show,

  • it's been one year since the attempted assassination of President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.

  • And the State Department is undergoing a massive reorganization,

  • which really just means laying off more than a thousand employees.

  • But let's start with immigration.

  • Specifically, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

  • It's now the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government,

  • thanks to Trump's new disastrous spending and tax law.

  • That's not great for a whole bunch of reasons.

  • We could talk about plans to hire 10,000 new officers as quickly as possible.

  • But first and foremost, let's talk about what,

  • or more accurately, who ICE has been tasked with detaining and deporting.

  • Because even before it got all this new money,

  • the agency had seemingly pivoted away from targeting all those terrifying criminals Trump promised to deport on the campaign trail.

  • Now the agency is more regularly going after non-criminals, your farm workers,

  • day laborers, and folks who have been here for decades.