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Now the Second (and Worse) Stage of Trump’s Police State

It’s part of the Big Ugly Bill just signed into law, and it will be evident very soon.

Robert Reich
Jul 07, 2025
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Friends,

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement.

This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.

ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets.

Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket from $3.4 billion in the current fiscal year to $45 billio…

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