Business Standard
With virtually no strings attached, Congress is on the verge of providing a sizable infusion of cash to the Department of Homeland Security, powering President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda for the remainder of his term in the White House. The nearly $70 billion package, which cleared the Republican-held Senate in a middle of the night vote and now heads to the House, was declared a "rotten bill" by the Democratic leader and an "ATM for ICE" by pro-immigrant advocates. But for those aligned with Trump's campaign promise for the largest mass deportation operation in US history, it all but guarantees an uninterrupted flow of money to carry out the administration's immigration enforcement operations - and comes on top of some $170 billion Congress already approved for the department last summer, as part of Trump's big tax breaks bill. "We're going to continue to arrest people, we're going to continue to detain people and we're going to keep deporting people," Trump border czar
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