Provides $70 billion for immigration enforcement and border security through fiscal 2029

§1What it does

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This law provides $70 billion to the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for immigration enforcement, border security and related work, generally available through fiscal year 2029.^2,3 It was passed as a budget reconciliation bill, a fast-track process tied to a congressional budget resolution that cannot be filibustered in the Senate and limits amendments there.³ The money pays for hiring, training and equipping Border Patrol, CBP and ICE personnel; border surveillance and drug-detection technology; ICE enforcement operations, including transportation, facilities and arrests; and agreements that let state and local police perform certain immigration enforcement duties.³ Part of the funding for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations must go to investigators who identify and rescue child victims of sexual exploitation, and none of the border security and technology funding may be spent on border surveillance towers that CBP has not tested and accepted for autonomous operation.³

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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