The Senate has passed a bill making Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the U.S.'s largest interior law enforcement agency with funding for Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda higher than most of the world’s militaries, including Israel’s.

Pending its passage in the House of Representatives, Trump’s bill could mean a massive increase in ICE funding as part of an immigration enforcement agenda worth $150 billion over four years.

This figure is more than the annual military budget of Italy, which at $30.8 billion, is the world’s 16th highest defense spender for this year according to tracker Global Fire Power.

It is also higher than military spending for Israel, ($30 billion), the Netherlands ($27 billion) and Brazil ($26.1 billion).

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    7 hours ago

    But we can’t afford to feed kids or have medical care or research for cancers and diseases or build housing for everyone.

    But we can buy expensive bombs galore to drop on families and build concentration camps.

    Neat.

    So, when do we all stop paying taxes and stop going to work and bring the whole system crashing down to stop this madness?