ICE Spending Big on Ads Despite Government Shutdown
Even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed, thousands are laid off, and SNAP runs out of funding amid the government shutdown, the Trump administration has continued to spend big (upwards of $10 million) on ICE recruitment and Department of Homeland Security ads encouraging self-deportation. In just the first three weeks of the government shutdown, ICE spent $4.5 million of taxpayer dollars to run recruitment ads, while DHS spent more than $5.3 million on ads encouraging self-deportation and […]
