Trump Signs $70B ICE/CBP Enforcement Bill; Anti-Weaponization Fund Survives Intact

President Trump signed the Secure America Act on June 10, 2026, a $70 billion immigration enforcement funding package providing ICE and CBP with multi-year operational funding through the end of his term. The Senate passed the bill 52–47 on June 4–5 after an 18-hour marathon session; Lisa Murkowski was the sole Republican defection. The House followed 214–212 on June 9. A Democratic effort to strip the $1.8 billion DOJ “Anti-Weaponization” settlement fund — which compensates individuals who allege political persecution by the Justice Department — failed; the fund survived intact in the final text. The legislation is formally titled the Secure America Act and funds enforcement continuity independent of future appropriations cycles.

The bill’s structural significance runs on two tracks. First, it locks in three-year funding continuity for the detention-and-deportation infrastructure — the same “build the apparatus before elections can reverse it” move documented in the contractor-network theme entries (see 2026-02-19–dhs-signs-billion-dollar-palantir-ice-surveillance-contract). The funding floor removes the appropriations leverage that previously gave Congress partial oversight over enforcement scale. Second, the anti-weaponization fund’s survival is the load-bearing accountability-erasure detail: the DOJ settlement mechanism pays political loyalists who claim DOJ persecution, operationalizing the forgiveness-over-accountability ratchet Mark identified (2026-05-12 framework — Nixon pardon to present). Combined with the Venturella memo’s elimination of post-release death reporting (see 2026-06-04–venturella-memo-eliminates-post-release-death-reporting-ice-accountability-erasure), this bill completes a June 2026 paired move: accountability mechanisms eliminated, enforcement infrastructure funded to term-end.