On Independence Day the One Big Beautiful Bill became law. It will provide billions of funding to strengthen interior enforcement and help to ensure that our borders remain secure. The $60 billion will beef up border security infrastructure, providing for completion of the border wall and electronic equipment to detect the entry of illegal aliens and contraband, and provide additional Customs and Border Protection manpower and facilities to arrest and detain those who enter illegally.
Ira Mehlman is media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
"If the money is spent wisely and if the project gets done, this would pretty much prevent people from coming into the United States illegally. We've already seen just in the first few months of the Trump administration that you can deter illegal immigration. This would ensure that it would remain deterred even beyond this administration."
But Mehlman says the objective here should not just be to stop people from coming into the country illegally.
It should also be to “bring down the number of people who are living here illegally. We estimate it to be about 18.6 million people. But it's a big job. It's going to take some time. It's going to be a combination of actual enforcement with ICE going out and arresting people. And also by sending clear messages to illegal aliens at that there's no point in them sticking around because they're not going to achieve what it is they came here to achieve. We are already starting to see that people are self-deporting."

As of late May, The Times of London reported that more than 9,000 illegals have used the government’s official self-deport program – which comes with $1,000 – through the CBP Home app.
U.S. officials have said that illegals who self-deport are welcome to apply to return as legal immigrants.
Still more have left without registering.
“Although the number of people who have unofficially self-deported is impossible to measure, four NGO representatives and migration officials who spoke to The Sunday Times estimated that thousands, perhaps more than 10,000, have left the US of their own accord; some to Mexico, some to countries further to the south,” The Times reported.