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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are touting the $165 billion in spending on border security and deportation operations in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law last week. But its immigration enforcement provisions appear rife with redundancies, overlaps, and vague wording, and experts are pointing to an absence of accountability measures for how the money will be spent.
Owen Tilman is a former Dispatch intern and a junior at Yale University. In addition to being an aspiring political reporter, he is a classical philosophy nerd, avid piano player, and regular attendee at good burger joints.
