Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up, VITAL BRIEFING—Immigration provisions in the OBBBA: implications for employment relationships and the labor market, (Jul 24, 2025)

By Jason Albright, J.D.

The Act contemplates the detention of immigrant children along with their parents.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, appropriated approximately $170 billion to advance the administration’s immigration and border enforcement goals. These priorities, which include detaining and removing from the U.S. unprecedented numbers of immigrants who are present in the country unlawfully, will have multiple implications for individual employment relationships and for the U.S. labor market. Stepped-up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity is a key priority of the Act, funded by fully $29.85 billion. The OBBBA also appropriates fully $45 billion to ICE for FY 2025, available through September 30, 2029, for “single adult alien detention capacity and family residential center capacity.” And, despite the dramatic increase in removal proceedings expected to flow from the significantly expanded immigration enforcement activities the OBBBA contemplates and funds, the Act provides only limited funding for additional immigration court operations.

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