I don’t know enough about how much ICE was active before Trump, but I saw a report the other day that ice spending has risen rapidly to over a billion dollars and they are recruiting by offering a $50,000 up front incentive for new recruits.

It's a lot more that $1Billion. ICE was allocated $74.85Billion for 4 years; Border Security was allocated $64.73 Billion ($46.55 billion for the border wall; $18billion for additional staffing and surveillance technology). A billion was added to the Defense Dept's budget for help with border operations.

The number of deportations was above average in 2025 (at around 600K), unless you count the number of self-deportations - which was a whopping 1.6million (see this). These are cases where immigrants accepted a cash incentive to voluntarily leave.

Thanks for the clarification, I couldn’t remember the figures, but knew it was a lot.