4 Ways the 'Big Beautiful Bill' Supercharged Trump's Immigration Crackdown ^59.4%

Reason.com - By Autumn Billings - 7/1/2026, 6:33 PM

Negativity Bias 37.6% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 33.2% - Biased Writer Voice 30.6%

It's been nearly a year since President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). While the legislation was advertised as a sweeping tax bill, it also allocated roughly $191 billion to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ramp up immigration enforcement. Included in this total was $75 billion for Immigration and... more