The Big Beautiful Bill can help us deport criminals, keep the peace and Make America Safe Again
The Los Angeles riots have made it crystal clear: Congress’ Big Beautiful Bill is crucial to President Donald Trump’s law-and-order agenda of deporting illegal aliens, securing the border and backing up law enforcement.Last week, violent agitators began attacking federal and local law-enforcement officers in Los Angeles.Failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris falsely claimed the riots were “overwhelmingly peaceful.” Gov.Gavin Newsom blamed the Trump administration because it dared to deport criminals.The legacy media provided aid and comfort to the rioters, as usual.President Trump, by contrast, took action — sending the National Guard and Marines to maintain civility.Rioters were arrested.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continued to detain the worst of the worst illegal aliens, despite the danger to officer safety.Yet the riots showed that as we confront the challenge of removing millions of illegal aliens, we also need to stop criminals who resort to violence to disrupt our efforts. To do that, DHS needs more resources and manpower — specifically, more federal law-enforcement officers, more detention beds and more transportation for removals.The One Big Beautiful Bill gets us all three.First, the BBB will allow ICE to hire 10,000 new officers.
It’ll also provide Customs and Border Protection funding for 5,000 more customs officers and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents.ICE currently has 20,000 law-enforcement and support personnel in more than 400 offices.A larger force will provide ICE agents with the necessary protection so they can continue to carry out removals.Why are more agents better? Simple: There’s safety in numbers.These rioters are cowards who’ll keep challenging us as long as they think they can get away with it.DHS needs to boost its manpower and resources to both remove illegal aliens and keep things peaceful in the process.Additionally, we need more space for apprehended illegal aliens as they await dep...