The agency overseeing Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown is spending tens of millions of dollars on guns, ammunition, body armor and surveillance technology, according to procurement records reviewed by AFP.

Spending across the categories is vastly higher than under both the Biden presidency and the first Trump administration.

ICE — the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency — has been tasked with deporting an unprecedented number of unauthorized migrants from the United States.

Data gleaned from federal contracts shows an agency that critics say is transforming itself into a paramilitary force, aided by a budget that now equals or surpasses the military spending of many smaller nations.

Since Trump took office on January 20, ICE has placed more than $70 million of pur

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