House Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation to back a series of President Trump’s immigration priorities, raising fees on those seeking refuge in the United States while boosting resources to detain and deport a record number of migrants.

The measure advanced by the House Judiciary Committee includes funding to support the removal of 1 million migrants a year — a lofty goal that would well outpace the number of deportations carried out by any prior administration.

That was coupled with $45 billion in funding to detain 100,000 migrants — almost triple the daily average under former President Biden and more than double the rate currently detained under Trump.

The Judiciary panel's bill comes alongside one weighed in the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, where Republicans added more than $45 billion to construct Trump’s border wall, forecasting 700 miles of new construction, along with new river barriers and other barriers.

Both measures, along with those crafted by other committees, will be combined into one massive package full of Trump's domestic priorities that Republicans aim to pass with only GOP votes.

The bills were excoriated by Democrats who called the package of immigration policies antithetical to American values, particularly as the Trump administration expels migrants — in some cases to a Salvadoran prison — without court hearings to review claims of criminality.

“My colleagues say these extreme measures are necessary to deport gang members, violent criminals, ‘the worst of the worst.’ But the Trump Administration is not targeting the worst of the worst. They’re arresting judges. They’re using federal agents to round-up law-abiding members of our communities with no criminal records, parents of American children, husbands and wives of American spouses—people who pose no threat to public safety,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

“If Donald Trump can sweep noncitizens off the street and fly them to a torturer’s prison in El Salvador with no Due Process, he can do it to citizens too,........

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