The ICE national police force in the OBBB
Pablo Manriquez goes deep on the massive expansion of ICE and a new national police force inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill"
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reporting over at Migrant Insider. Along with his colleague , Pablo’s been reporting on all things immigration in the second Trump term.Months go he flagged how much money was in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” for not just a massive expansion of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, but also a fundamental rewiring of how it operates, with the potential to turn into America’s first national police force — a constant presence in all of our lives.
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Show Notes:
00.00-Introductions
00.54- Do we live in a police state?
01.24- “They got a payday of over 30 billion dollars, and to put that into perspective, ICE has never had a payday more than 9 billion dollars”
02.10- Organization of rounding up agents
04.35- “Los Angeles has become a test ground for what they can get away with”
04.40- The Big Beautiful Bill and ICE recruitment
07.24- Have we ever seen this in the United States?
08.49- Immigration OS
10.56- When the pendulum swings back, what will people prioritize?
15.27- In the next couple of months we might see violence start to increase
18.10- It seems like the ICE workers are ashamed of their work
19.00- ICE and the Police
22.35- How much can be cancelled if Democrats win in ‘28
27.00- The migrant reaction
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