Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, what will happen once the immigration problem is "fixed"? That's always been the narrative that has been sold: the borders were "open", they are now "closed", and now we have to take some extreme action to correct things. Presumably this means there will be a time when enhanced enforcement is no longer necessary (the mere existence of uncaught immigrants doesn't define the need, if you look to COVID as an example of a resolution to point where the emergency passed)
> Presumably this means there will be a time when enhanced enforcement is no longer necessary
No agency tasked with alarm-based enforcement (ex: War on *) will ever silence the alarm. After the need (actual or otherwise) is passed, numbers are massaged and the original mandate is redefined into an expanded scope.
That's how it's been with past, more constitutional administrations. What we've seen recently is that national threats are crafted so that enemies of the admin are targeted.
For any excess capacity of force that ICE may have, that's where I expect to see it directed.