Lots of groups will be harmed by President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which recently became his One Big Beautiful Law. Among them: the poor, the young, the math-literate.

But it’s also worth assessing who will benefit from the GOP’s rearrangement of fiscal priorities. The answer is not only the rich and corporations; it’s also America’s growing immigration industrial complex.

Trump’s new mega-law invests $178 billion in additional immigration enforcement over the next decade, primarily through new funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. To be clear, this is not merely about “border security,” which has significant bipartisan appeal. Democrats tried to beef it up last year, though Trump ordered Republican lawmakers not to cooperate. It’s largely for more detention centers and boots on the ground within the U.S. interior. This means spending more dollars to round up gardeners, home health aides, grad students, nannies, construction workers, etc.

In other words, the administration is going after your family, neighbors and friends, regardless of how long they’ve been here, whether they present any “safety” threat or how much they’ve contributed to their communities.

A dollar figure this huge can be challenging to wrap one’s arms around. So here are some ways to put it in context:

Trump has some flexibility on when he spends the new money Congress gave him (which comes in addition to the usual annual appropriations that immigration-related agencies receive), but it’s reasonable to assume that this year’s annual budget for ICE alone will be larger than that for most other law enforcement agencies combined. This includes the FBI, Bureau of Prisons, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

ICE spending this year will also be larger than most other countries’ military budgets.

Funding for ICE agents specifically is expected to quadruple in the last year of Trump’s second term, according to estimates from Bobby Kogan, a former Senate budget staffer and researcher at the Center for American Progress.

As former president Joe Biden said, “Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” Today, American values point in one direction: expanding the immigration police state.

What might these new investments mean in practice? ICE, with the help of law enforcement personnel seconded from other federal, state and local agencies, has already sown terror across the country with far fewer resources. Agents have descended upon big cities and small towns alike, often masked, armed and refusing to show warrants or identification. With daily arrest quotas to meet, agents are filling detention centers not with criminals, but people with no criminal history whatsoever.

In fact while the number of convicted criminals held in ICE detention is about 1.6 times what it was before Trump took office, the number of detainees with zero criminal convictions or charges is up nearly 14-fold, according to government data analyzed by Syracuse University researcher Austin Kocher.

Turns out, maintaining a massive immigration police state is expensive. ICE has been burning through cash and running low on funds. Meanwhile, ICE agents are still not meeting their daily quotas, and the potential pool of people they could be snatching off the streets and jamming into overcrowded detention centers is rapidly expanding.

That’s because Trump is not merely siccing immigration forces upon those who had been undocumented (with or without criminal records). Under the stewardship of Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, this administration has also been working to “de-document” hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are here legally.

These include Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who came in with advanced permission under a Biden-era program, after undergoing onerous screening abroad and securing a sponsor here in the United States. Some of our Afghan allies, including many who supported U.S. military efforts at great personal risk to themselves and their families, are in the crosshairs as well.

Many of these policies have been challenged in court and have either been paused or otherwise not yet taken effect. But the administration is charging ahead anyway. The Justice Department recently announced plans to prioritize revoking citizenship from naturalized U.S. citizens. After a recent Supreme Court ruling, the administration is also still trying to strip birthright citizenship from babies born in the United States, including those born to both undocumented and many authorized immigrant parents. At least in some U.S. states, this could create a new class of potentially stateless, undocumented infants, who are also at risk of deportation.

Catherine Rampell is a Washington Post columnist.

Perhaps it’s no wonder, then, that ICE needs all those funds. Have you seen the price of cribs these days?

Catherine Rampell is a Washington Post columnist.