The dramatic surge in funding for immigration enforcement agencies puts spending at a level that rivals foreign military forces, creating a benchmark critics fear will serve as the norm for years to come.

President Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" triples funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Its $30 billion now exceeds funding levels for the militaries of Canada and Turkey.

The bill likewise allocates $45 billion in funding for detention centers, allowing the U.S. to more than double its current capacity in the hopes of detaining more than 100,000 people.

It also designates roughly $47 billion for continuing construction of Trump’s border wall.

“I think what we can't even quite comprehend yet is what the human impact will be and the ways in which this money is going to further convert the United States into a police state for immigrant communities and beyond,” Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, told The Hill.

“They're talking about creating a militarized environment for anyone in this country they believe to be worthy of deportation.”

Border czar Tom Homan over the weekend told Politico the bill is “going to give us more resources and more boots on the ground, so when we have to go to these sanctuary cities, we want to send in many more agents in sanctuary cities. … It’s going to........

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