Trump signs $70 billion immigration enforcement bill funding ICE through 2029

President Donald Trump signed the Secure America Act on June 10, 2026, turning into law a nearly $70 billion package that will fund immigration enforcement through September 2029.

The law gives U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement $38 billion, Customs and Border Protection $26 billion, and $5 billion to the Department of Homeland Security for unforeseen costs, according to contemporary reporting. It is one of the largest single financing boosts yet for the administration's deportation and border enforcement agenda.

Trump signed the bill in the Oval Office after it cleared Congress, ending a prolonged fight over how to fund DHS and how much oversight should accompany immigration enforcement money.

What the law does

The Secure America Act locks in multi-year funding for ICE and CBP for the rest of Trump's term. The money runs through September 2029, giving the administration a more durable financing base for detention, hiring, surveillance and deportation operations.

That shift matters because it reduces the need for annual budget fights over core enforcement spending. It also gives DHS and its immigration agencies a longer planning horizon for staffing, contracts and operations.

Trump said the legislation would fully fund DHS through the end of his term and praised ICE and Border Patrol agents as heroes. Supporters of the measure have framed it as a necessary step to strengthen border and interior enforcement.

How Congress got there

The bill reached the White House after a narrow 214-212 House vote on June 9, following prior Senate approval. The House margin reflected how tightly divided lawmakers remained over the administration's immigration agenda and the scale of the funding package.

The measure became a central vehicle in a months-long fight over DHS funding. Negotiations had been tied up by disputes over enforcement tactics, oversight demands and Democratic efforts to force policy changes as part of the deal.

The final House vote ended that standoff, at least for now, and delivered the administration the multi-year financing it had sought.

The political fight

Democrats opposed the package on the grounds that it gave ICE too much money without enough accountability. They argued that the bill did not include the oversight or policy concessions they wanted before approving such a large enforcement commitment.

The conflict also unfolded against the backdrop of the deaths of two U.S. citizens during federal immigration operations in Minneapolis, which Democrats cited when they resisted earlier DHS funding efforts. That episode helped turn the bill into a broader test of the administration's immigration approach.

Republicans and White House allies, by contrast, cast the legislation as a necessary investment in border security and immigration enforcement. The money now in law gives that argument a concrete budgetary result through the end of Trump's term.

What the money covers

The funding split underscores how heavily the package tilts toward enforcement operations. ICE receives the largest share at $38 billion, while CBP gets $26 billion and DHS gets an additional $5 billion for unexpected costs.

Taken together, the allocations are designed to sustain deportation and border enforcement operations over several years rather than one budget cycle. The law is likely to expand the administration's ability to keep those operations going without returning to Congress each year for the same level of funding.

Exactly how DHS and ICE will divide the money across detention, hiring, technology and deportation programs has not yet been spelled out in the reporting. That breakdown will be one of the main implementation questions in the weeks ahead.

What comes next

The immediate focus now shifts from passage to execution. DHS will have to decide how to distribute the money across agencies and programs, while the White House and department officials may issue guidance on how the funds will be used.

Attention is also likely to turn to oversight fights. Democrats could push for hearings or new accountability measures, and any later legal or procedural challenge would be watched closely, though no material challenge has emerged in the available reporting.

For now, the major fact is that Trump has locked in a multi-year enforcement funding stream through the remainder of his term. That makes the Secure America Act a durable spending foundation for ICE, CBP and DHS heading into the next several budget cycles.