A Message to Our Community: Navigating a New Era of Immigration Enforcement
As we enter a new chapter under the current presidential administration, many of you may be feeling uncertainty, fear, and frustration. These emotions are valid. The recent enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has dramatically reshaped the immigration landscape, and its consequences are already being felt.
At Lipp Law, our mission is to support you through every step of this journey. We recognize that the shifting political climate can create anxiety, and we want you to know: you are not alone.
Enforcement Over Compassion: What OBBBA Means
Signed into law in July 2025, OBBBA allocated over $100 billion to immigration enforcement. Here’s how that breaks down:
- ICE Detention Expansion - $45 billion; Purpose: Build new ICE facilities and double detention capacity
- Deportation Operations - $15 billion; Purpose: Increase deportation flights, personnel, and logistics
- ICE Personnel & Infrastructure - $30 billion; Purpose: Bonus pay, recruitment, training, vehicles, and enforcement tools
- DHS Slush Funds (Enforcement Use) - $12.1 billion; Flexible funds for DHS, much of which may be directed to ICE
This brings the total enforcement-related funding to over $100 billion, with ICE’s budget alone tripling compared to previous years. The administration expects this surge to result in:
- A 50% increase in ICE personnel
- A 100% expansion in detention capacity
- A 268% increase in removals by 2029
Meanwhile, USCIS and consular processing are slowing down, as federal priorities shift toward enforcement over adjudication. Interview waivers are being rolled back, visa backlogs are growing, and TPS protections for Hondurans and Nicaraguans will end this September, placing tens of thousands at risk.
Source: H.R.1 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): One Big Beautiful Bill Act Congress.gov Library of Congress; TITLE IX--COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
⚖️ Our Commitment in a Broken System
We do not agree with these priorities. Investing billions in detention and deportation while families wait years for reunification is a moral failure. But our commitment is not to politics—it’s to you.
- We are actively monitoring all policy changes, legislation, and executive actions.
- We will continue to communicate clearly and promptly about developments that affect your case.
- We will advocate fiercely, prepare thoroughly, and protect relentlessly.
Justice may be delayed, but it is not abandoned.
🤝STANDING TOGETHER
The work we do may only bend the arc of justice in ways that feel imperceptible today, but we do it for our children, for future generations, and for a better America. We do it together.
Let’s support one another. Let’s be patient with one another. And together, we will continue to bend the arc toward justice.
In Solidarity,
Daniel F. Lippmann, Esq.
