Coupled with the local resources drain is the legal drain when ICE’s budget is used to fight every single charge and impose maximum delay of justice. That much money can inflict a lot of damage on judge’s time, the local attorney’s time, and result in temporary rulings that have a silencing effect. They cannot hire enough people to spend all the money they received, so they’re draining it via corruption, contracts they don’t need, bribing local police units, and legal representation.