On June 10, 2026, President Donald Trump signed legislation providing $70 billion for immigration enforcement and detention efforts over the next three years. In this photo, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent observes a crowd of protesters at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026. (Photo by Ben Ackman/New Jersey Monitor)
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump significantly increased funding for immigration enforcement on Wednesday, signing into law a nearly $70 billion package that will allow key federal agencies to operate without any modern restrictions.
Democrats pushed for the barriers after immigration officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January. But when talks broke down, Republican lawmakers drafted their own bill without any additional restrictions.
“The bill provides critical funding for domestic law enforcement investigations and combating child exploitation, continuing our work to restore law and order across the country and protect America’s youth,” Trump said during an event in the Oval Office.
The measure passed Congress this month, with nearly all Republicans voting to approve the additional spending, which will last through September 2029.
Democratic lawmakers he argued Immigration officers should follow standards of other federal law enforcement agencies, such as wearing body cameras, obtaining a warrant from a judge before entering someone’s home and identifying themselves by removing masks.
Republican Party leaders said during the talks that they were open to introducing restrictions on the behavior of immigration officials, but chose not to include any restrictions in their party-line bill.
Funded by ICE, CBP
The bill would provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement with another $38.53 billion. Customs and Border Protection will receive an additional $26.02 billion, and the secretary of Homeland Security will receive $5 billion more.
The money is in addition to the Republicans’ $170 billion attached in their “big beautiful” law, as well as in financing approved in the annual DHS appropriations package.
Nearly every Republican in the House voted approve this measure, although New Jersey Reps. Thomas H. Kean Jr., who was absent due to an undisclosed illness, and South Carolina Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman, who were competing in their home state governor’s primary schoolI missed the vote.
The only Republican was Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski vote against in approving the legislation in this house, in writing the statement, negotiators should have reached a bipartisan solution in the annual funding bill, rather than using intricate budget reconciliation process to bypass procedural votes that would otherwise require the support of 60 senators.
“By opting for adequate funding for three fiscal years instead of one, this measure weakens the normal budgeting process and sets another precedent for avoiding it in the event of no deal,” she wrote. “In doing so, it limits Congress’s ability to apply reasonable controls on immigration policy throughout the remainder of this administration and the next.”
Murkowski added that she would have voted for the package if it “provided immigration funding for one year, included clear limits on what those funds could be used for, and eliminated any ability to allocate taxpayer dollars to the administration’s brash fund.”
This $1.776 billion account would provide compensation to people who believe they were wrongly prosecuted by the Justice Department. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche he testified before Congress, the administration had no plans to pursue the proposal after Republicans on Capitol Hill expressed opposition.
Trump, however, did not completely withdraw his support for the fund, he said interview with NBC News this weekend that he and other Republicans think it’s a “great idea.”
“You have to get permission for this,” he said. “If they get approved, great. If they don’t get approved, I’ll be disappointed.”
