Employment / 1 min read
President Trump signed his "Big Beautiful Budget Bill" into law on July 4, 2025. Among the significant impact that this bill will have on many government programs, the bill provides for an incredible amount of new funding for immigration enforcement detention and removal. The bill provides for:
- Increased Detention and Removal Capacity (Sec. 70101, 70105): $45 billion is appropriated to ICE to expand adult alien detention capacity and family residential centers, estimated at 100,000 beds. An additional $14.4 billion is for transportation and removal operations.
- Boosting ICE Personnel and Effectiveness (Sec. 70102-70104, 70112):
- $858 million for ICE retention and signing bonuses.
- $8 billion to hire additional ICE personnel, with minimum hiring targets.
- $600 million to improve ICE hiring capabilities.
- $1.32 billion to hire more attorneys for ICE's Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA).
- Enhanced Immigration Court Efficiency (Sec. 70100): $1.25 billion is provided to EOIR to hire more support staff and Immigration Judges, and to expand courtroom capacity.
- Targeting Criminal Aliens (Sec. 70111, 70123, 70124): The bill provides $950 million to compensate states for incarcerating criminal aliens and $75 million each to DHS for expanding expedited removal for criminal aliens and applying administrative removal to non-LPRs convicted of deportable offenses.
These appropriations mean that ICE and DHS will have significantly more resources and manpower to conduct ICE raid, Enforcement Removal Actions, and I-9 audit in the years to come. It is therefore incumbent upon Texas employers to be ready for this increase enforcement with established plans for what to do when DHS/ICE arrives at your worksite and to get you I-9s in the best shape possible for compliance audits.
The Andrews Myers employment section can help you put these plans together and conduct an audit of you I-9s and I-9 compliance programs.