Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 23

ICE Budget Gains 6.3 Percent In FY 06 DHS Spending Bill

President Bush signed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Homeland Security Appropriations Act on October 19. The legislation adopts many of the changes called for in the Secretary’s Second Stage Review and provides a total of $3.9 billion in direct appropriations and fees for ICE. That figure is an increase of $216.218 million or 6.3 percent above FY 2005.

Included in the FY 06 enhancements for ICE are:

• $35 million in additional funding for the annualization of the FY 05 Supplemental Appropriation.
• $205 million in additional funding for base fixes.
• $5 million in additional funding for Visa Security Program expansion.
• $39.3 million in additional funding for Arizona Border Control/Interior Repatriation.
• $43.7 million in additional funding for Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) activities.
• $42 million for an additional 250 Criminal Investigators.
• $9 million for an additional 67 Immigration Enforcement Agents.
• $800,000 in additional funding for the Cyber Crimes Center.
• $1 million in additional funding for the Law Enforcement Support Center.
• $10 million in additional funding for Worksite Enforcement.
• $5.4 million in additional funding for Alternatives to Detention.
• $8.9 million in additional funding for Fugitive Operations.
• $16 million for an additional 60 Fugitive Operations team members.
• $5.4 million in additional funding for Institutional Removal.
• $90 million for an additional 1,920 bed spaces.
• $18 million for an additional 100 Institutional Removal Program agents.
• $10 million for an additional 49 Alternatives to Detention positions.

The DHS FY 2006 appropriations include more than $30.8 billion in net discretionary spending—a 4.7 percent increase over FY 2005. In total, with mandatory and fee-based programs, the DHS budget for FY 2006 is $40.6 billion.

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