claim: "we spend $18 billion a year on making sure that the federal government has immigrant enforcement agents. that's more than dea and the atf and the fbi and all the other enforcement (agencies) combined."
author: luis gutierrez
evidence_1: jan 7, 2013 ... the obama administration spent nearly $18 billion on immigration enforcement  last year, significantly more than its spending on all the other major federal law  enforcement agencies combined, according to a report published monday by the  migration policy institute, a nonpartisan research group in ...
evidence_2: how do you define 'enforcement' agency? luis gutierrez · "we spend $18 billion  a year on making sure that the federal government has immigrant enforcement  agents. that's more than dea and the atf and the fbi and all the other  enforcement (agencies) combined." — politifact national on tuesday, july 15th,  2014.
evidence_3: the drug warriors in the white house, the congress, the drug enforcement  administration (dea), the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives ( atf), and immigration and customs enforcement (ice) have blood on their  hands, too. for almost a century, american politicians and federal antidrug  agencies have ...
evidence_4: dec 20, 2011 ... el paso has witnessed an unprecedented buildup of the u.s. government's  security and law enforcement apparatus. .... these are three bridges between el  paso and juárez, plus six other road crossings in the u.s. border patrol's el paso  sector, which includes all of new mexico and some of west texas.
evidence_5: may 16, 2017 ... the fbi spent almost a year making a fake documentary, trying to get cliven  bundy, his family, and their supporters to incriminate themselves on tape. ... in  more than 100 hours of video and audio recordings obtained by the intercept,  offers an unprecedented window into how federal law enforcement ...