Trump Signs Bill Funding ICE Through 2029
Trump signing the Secure America Act locks in ICE and Border Patrol funding through 2029 — a major immigration enforcement milestone with direct impact on millions of immigrants and US policy. The concurrent ICE protester database revelation adds a civil liberties dimension.
The Morning Brief Desk · · Updated June 18, 2026 · How the Brief is made
President Trump signed the Secure America Act yesterday morning, a GOP-led reconciliation package that funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through 2029. The signing came after House Republicans passed the funding bill, which extends immigration enforcement money through the end of Trump’s term.
The law locks in resources for the administration’s immigration enforcement agenda for the next three years. It arrives amid new scrutiny of ICE’s data practices. In a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the agency’s recently departed director said ICE collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, a category that could include protesters. The disclosure contrasts with ICE’s public denial that it maintains a protester database, raising civil liberties questions as the agency’s funding expands.
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Watch live: Trump signs reconciliation package funding immigration enforcement into law
President Trump on Wednesday morning will sign the Secure America Act, a GOP-led bill that funds U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through 2029.
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ICE denies having a protester database. But a letter to Congress sheds more light
In a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the newly-departed head of ICE said the agency collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, which could include protesters.
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