Immigration and Customs Enforcement could run out of money as soon as next month amid the Trump administration’s ramped-up efforts to deport unauthorized immigrants.

While there are more than three months left in the fiscal year, one estimate has found that the agency is already $1 billion over budget, according to Axios. Legislators in both parties have raised concerns about the speed at which the agency is spending its funds, which may prompt President Donald Trump to seek additional funds from other agencies to support his deportation efforts.

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    And there is the part that both left and right kind of ignored; deporting a thousand people costs millions, deporting a million people costs billions. Deporting 20 million people wrecks your economy for both cost and now-missing labor.

    It’s economic suicide that any sane leader would have seen coming from a suns distance away, but here we are with cheeto

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      The way the Nazis did it was they at first had the Jews pay for the privilege of being extradited, with most of what they owned.

      Later on their tactics evolved a bit more and more.