2014 article published in Politico found that the US government spends more money each year on border and immigration enforcement than the combined budgets of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, and the US Marshals. Altogether, the article noted that more than $100 billion of our tax dollars has been spent on border and immigration control since 9/11. And these numbers preceded the Trump era, with President Obama spending record sums on immigration enforcement even as he
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