Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025.

This is USA Today is the excerpt. Today, what the White House is saying about ice agents coming to sanctuary cities, plus Trump-Harvard tensions play out in court and how the president

is pushing for a return to the former name of the Washington commander's football team.

The White House is warning that a flood of ice agents is coming to cities run by Democrats.

I spoke with USA Today, national correspondent Trevor Hughes, to learn more.

Trevor, thanks for joining me.

You bet. All right. So what did we hear from White House borders are Tom Holman about plans for

Democrat run cities? And Trevor, why does he feel this is necessary? Tom Holman is basically saying

they're going to flood the zone. Cities like Denver or Los Angeles, Boston, they have a reputation as sanctuary cities where, in particular, jails do not help ICE agents when they have someone who has been detained who is accused of an immigration violation.

And the administration has been pushing for a long time to say these people should be kept in custody until ICE can come and collect them.

They're instead being released. And so ICE says, fine, we will send more people onto the streets

in these so-called sanctuary cities. Trevor, what role has Congress had recently in expanding

immigration enforcement? Congress has given the Homeland Security just billions and billions of dollars in additional funding.

I mean, there is funding for 100,000 detention beds, 10,000 new ICE agents, bonuses for ICE

agents. Really, we are looking at a significant transformation in how immigration enforcement

is conducted in this country because of the money given by Congress to Homeland Security and ICE.

And can you help us just put the size of the current ICE budget in context for us a little bit,

Trevor? You've probably seen this on your social media feeds. There's a question about, you know,

who calculates it and how, but we're really talking about a law enforcement agency that now has a

budget bigger than the FBI,

bigger than the Bureau of Prisons, bigger than the U.S. Marshal Service, all combined.

ICE is going to be an absolutely enormous law enforcement agency with powers all over the country.

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