U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) estimates that implementing the proposed Laken Riley Act would cost close to $27 billion annually and would require a massive expansion of resources, including over 10,000 new agents, 7,000 attorneys, and 110,000 additional detention beds.
The new data, which comes from an internal ICE document obtained and verified by NPR, shatters estimates reported a week ago, which had placed the cost around $3.2 billion in additional funding for fiscal year 2025.
