For MAGA Republicans (are their any other Republicans left?) BBB stand for Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, the legislative atrocity they so lamely approved. More likely it is the grade rating agencies will assign to US Government debt, once the bill is implemented…
I don’t have to list all the terrible provisions that shred the most important components of the safety net, food assistance and healthcare, to provide permanent tax breaks for the richest 5 percent. I want to draw attention to a different provision that is truly scary.
ICE will receive 75 billion in new funding. This makes ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency in U.S. history. In other words, Republicans a spending 75 billion to fund a Gestapo, designed to terrify immigrants and American citizens alike.
The problem with this is that it is based on a false premise. Trump did receive a mandate to expel criminal immigrants. However ICE has so far been unable to find enough criminal immigrants to satisfy the quotas set by Stephen Miller, the Trump advisor who made expelling immigrants his calling in life. Immigrants in the US, especially those of questionable legal status take great care not to run afoul of the law. The rate of criminality among that group is lower than the comparable rate for native born Americans. So, ICE has had to resort to catching and expelling immigrants that do not have a criminal record. ICE is arresting immigrants when they show up for court demanded check-ins, for example.
The vast majority if immigrants expelled by the ICE have no criminal record. Of the group of immigrants illigally sent to the Salvadoran terror prison by the Trump adminstration, the group that included Mr Garcia, 75 percent had no criminal records and no cases pending aginst them. I cannot believe that expelling these people is the mandate the American voters have given Trump in the last election.