Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is trying to whip Democrat voters into a frenzy over President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, telling supporters that the legislation is just as hardline on immigration as Trump and his allies have touted.
The bill allocates $170 billion for immigration enforcement, including $45 billion for detention facilities, $30 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and nearly $50 billion to fund construction of Trump’s long-promised border wall.
Following the bill’s final passage in the House on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez took to the left-wing social media platform Bluesky to issue a stark warning about its implications.
“I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE,” she began. “This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion – making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.”
“It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing,” she further claimed without providing any evidence or examples.
No one’s “disappearing”
.@AOCThey are illegal aliens, not American citizens 🙄
Stop the drama queen bit. You didn’t give one damn when Joe had them in cages
Your act is getting old pic.twitter.com/v4az9xaYp5
— 🇺🇲Salty Texan (@texan_maga) July 4, 2025
Earlier, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for policy Stephen Miller told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that the bill represents “the most robust, comprehensive border security and immigration enforcement package we’ve ever seen. One that will allow us to deport millions upon millions of invaders.”
“To oppose this bill is to support the invasion,” he added.
Last week, after he signed the BBB into law, Trump praised ICE officers for “fighting every day to reclaim our Sovereignty and Freedom” as he spotlighted their role in his plans for the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.
“This July 4th weekend I want to give a big ‘THANK YOU!’ to the Heroic ICE Officers fighting every day to reclaim our Sovereignty and Freedom,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday.
He pointed to his signature immigration plan, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as the key to giving ICE billions more in funding to carry out its immigration enforcement duties.
“One of the most exciting parts of the ‘ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT’ is that it includes ALL of the Funding and Resources that ICE needs to carry out the Largest Mass Deportation Operation in History,” Trump said.
“Our Brave ICE Officers, who are under daily violent assault, will finally have the tools and support that they need. We will not let America become a Third World Country filled with Crime, failing Schools, collapsing Hospitals, and total Social Dysfunction,” he continued.
“It’s called ‘REMIGRATION’ and, it will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Border czar Tom Homan, meanwhile, shockingly revealed that he is living apart from his wife due to death threats he has received in an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Divine last month on her “Pod Force One” podcast.
“I spent a lot of time with my boys growing up, but as I got more and more — climbed the ladder of what I’ve done with ICE director and now back — I don’t see my family very much,” Homan said.
“My wife’s living separately from me right now, mainly because I worked for many hours, but mostly because of the death threats against me,” the country’s top border enforcer added. “She’s someplace else. I see her as much as I can, but the death threats against me and my family are outrageous.”
Homan said that Trump tapped him for his position within days of his landslide victory over then-Vice President Kamala Harris. He described the watershed moment to Divine as an offer that he simply could not refuse.
“I was the first person he called, bringing back, which, again, was a proud moment, but I was actually out to dinner with my wife, and then my phone rang, and I looked down, and it says, ‘POTUS.’ And my wife says, ‘He’s asking him to come back, isn’t he?’ ” Homan said.
“So I walked outside, and the first thing he said to me was, ‘You’ve been bitching about it for four years. Well, come back and fix it.’ So how do you say no?” Homan added.
