Trump administration may pull money from TSA, Coast Guard to help ICE afford costly deportations
Source: NBC News
Trump administration may pull money from TSA, Coast Guard to help ICE afford costly deportations
The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.
Jan. 28, 2025, 8:06 PM EST
By Julia Ainsley
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is facing a budget shortfall that began before President Donald Trump took office but that could be an obstacle for his promise of mass deportations around the country now that it is the principal agency tasked with carrying out those deportations.
Trump administration officials are now considering pulling funding from the Transportation Security Administration to make up for it, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
The administration is also looking at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Coast Guard as possible areas from which to take money to give ICE.
The executive branch is allowed to move money appropriated by Congress from one agency to another within a department, and the Trump administration would not be the first to do so to make up for an ICE budget shortfall.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/administration-may-pull-money-tsa-help-fund-deportations-rcna189387
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