This piece reflects the immigration section of the newly passed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which directs roughly $150 billion to border enforcement over the next decade. A steel fence at the right is crowded with gold-toned cartridges, and more tumble through an opening, showing how appropriations convert into bullets, drones, and concrete. Each casing glints like a coin, tying firepower to the flow of money: $45 billion for new detention centers, $30 billion for an expanded deportation fleet, and $60 billion to hire thousands of ICE and Border Patrol officers. On the left, a silent line of migrants sits on cracked desert ground beneath a harsh sun, waiting while resources spill into the barrier instead of relief. Windblown dust blurs the horizon, underscoring the human uncertainty that grows alongside every gold round added to the wall.
