Fund at least 20,000 deportation officers
What the document says“Congress should fund ICE for at least 20,000 ERO officers”
Enforcement and Removal Operations is the ICE division responsible for arresting, detaining and removing people in the country unlawfully. The chapter asks Congress to fund at least 20,000 such officers, alongside 5,000 more in another category.
What the document actually says“Congress should fund ICE for at least 20,000 ERO officers”
Congress should pay for at least 20,000 more officers who send people home.
Some ICE officers arrest people and send them home. The book says there should be at least 20,000 of them.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14
2025-07-04 · 139 Stat. 72
Section 100052 of the reconciliation act appropriates $29,850,000,000 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2029, and the first of its eleven named purposes is hiring and training more officers, agents, investigators and support staff, with performance, retention and signing bonuses attached to written service agreements. Congress funded the hiring the chapter asked it to fund. It set no number: the law does not require 20,000 Enforcement and Removal Operations officers, does not single out that division, and leaves the resulting size of the force to how the agency spends the money.
The 2025 budget law gives $29.85 billion to the immigration agency. The first use listed is hiring and training more officers and staff. The money runs through 2029. But the law names no number of officers, so the size of the force is up to the agency.