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Ryuu96 said:

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) 3 July 2025 at 19:58

This figure is more than the annual military budget of Italy, which at $30.8 billion, is the world's 16th highest defense spender for this year, according to tracker Global Fire Power. It is also higher than military spending for Israel ($30 billion), the Netherlands ($27 billion) and Brazil ($26.1 billion).

US Immigration Budget Now Bigger Than Most of The World's Militaries - Newsweek

Nazi Military Force Homegrown in America.

Little more perspective

The Stasi, East Germany's Ministry for State Security, had an annual budget estimated at approximately $1 billion.

$1 billion in 1980 is now $3.8 billion with inflation.

16.7 million East Germans in 1980, 340 million in US today, so at least per capita that's 'only half' of the East German secret police budget...

Of course the $30 billion ICE budget is only a part of the total 'security' apparatus. Another $45 billion to build detention centers concentration camps. 


The KGB's annual budget was estimated to be between $6 billion and $12 billion... (about 12 to 24 Billion in today's money) ICE bigger than the KGB.