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ICE deported 70 US citizens, triples budget to $28.7B

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 13, 2025
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Image: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, April 2025; Copyright Lawrey / shutterstock.com

Nothing says "failing upward" quite like deporting your own citizens and getting rewarded with a monster budget increase. Between 2015 and 2020, ICE managed to boot at least 70 actual American citizens out of their own country — and those are just the ones …

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