The budget bill just passed by the Senate provides more than $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement and detention. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who worked on an analysis published by the American Immigration Council, says the new budget would make ICE “the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation.”
  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation

    Are all those qualifiers even needed?

    Are there any state or local agencies larger than the federal government’s? Are there any other countries with larger agencies? (China or India, maybe?)

    Or can we just call it “the largest law enforcement agency in (western) history”?