GOP gives ICE massive budget increase to expand Trump’s deportation effort
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This week, 10 people were charged with attempted murder of federal agents after a July 4th attack on an immigration detention center in Alvarado, Texas. |
| 0:10.2 | Fireworks were shot at the facility and a police officer responding to the scene was shot in the neck. |
| 0:15.7 | The acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas said that last week's events were, quote, |
| 0:20.1 | an ambush of federal and local law enforcement officers. |
| 0:23.7 | The charges come as immigration agents just received a major infusion of funding to carry out President Trump's deportation agenda. |
| 0:31.0 | The big budget bill passed by Republicans includes billions for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, giving it more funding than any other federal law enforcement agency. |
| 0:41.8 | But speaking at his cabinet meeting today, the president suggested that the administration might not need to spend as much as he thought. |
| 0:49.8 | I don't think we're going to need so much of it because we had a, we had zero come in last month, |
| 0:55.2 | so I'm not sure how much of it we want to spend. |
| 0:57.1 | You may think about that. |
| 0:58.5 | You may actually think about saving a lot of money because the wall's been largely built |
| 1:02.6 | and it obviously worked, but you may want to think about that. |
| 1:07.5 | Our White House correspondent, Laura Burrell-L Lopez, joins us now with the latest. |
| 1:11.4 | So, Laura, we heard the president there seemed to downplay the need to use all of the money that was allocated for his deportation agenda. |
| 1:18.0 | What should we understand about that? |
| 1:19.7 | So the president is somewhat right in that the numbers of border crossings are down. |
| 1:24.9 | It's not zero. |
| 1:25.9 | According to his borders are Tom Homan, |
| 1:28.0 | the June 2025 numbers, just over 6,000 border crossings occurred compared to more than 83,000 |
| 1:36.4 | during that same time in 2024. But it's not zero. Now, when it comes to whether or not the |
| 1:41.4 | administration is going to spend the money that's allocated in this bill, |
| 1:47.7 | the Borders are Tom Homan, as well as Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, |
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