WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Congress is preparing to hand the agencies that hunt and remove immigrants enough money to keep doing it until Donald Trump leaves office. The House of Representatives is set to vote on a $70 billion package for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, a sum that would bankroll the deportation drive for three full years no matter what else changes in Washington.

The bill, branded the Secure America Act, sends $38.6 billion to ICE, $26 billion to Border Protection and a further $5 billion to the Department of Homeland Security to spend on enforcement as it chooses. It cleared the Senate at the end of last week by 52 votes to 47, with only one Republican, Lisa Murkowski, joining every Dem...