The number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody increased to 66,000 this week, setting a new record high as Trump intensifies his crackdown on illegal immigration, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News.
Never before has ICE held so many detainees facing deportation at any given time, according to officials, historical data and immigration policy experts.
ICE’s detainee population has ballooned by nearly 70% since Mr. Trump took office for a second time in January, when ICE was holding around 39,000 individuals in its detention system. The previous high before Mr. Trump’s second administration was recorded during his first term, in 2019, when ICE held about 56,000 detainees at one point, according to government figures compiled by researchers at Syracuse University.
Concentration camps.
Personally, I don’t give a shit if someone came here legally or not. Crossing an imaginary government line on a map somewhere isn’t a real crime.
I wonder if this is costing us more than just letting the courts do their jobs.
The cost is going to be much worse than money. This will be an inescapable shame, a stain that history won’t forget, which is saying a lot when compared to the rest of the shit America does.
I have no doubt this is costing the economy millions of dollars. Most of these people are working and spending and paying sales and fuel taxes, and those that are trying to become citizens would be paying income taxes.
But hey, CoreCivic and the GEO Group are raking in the cash, and that’s all that matters.
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A record high… Of course its a record high.
Likely a lot more than what is being reported.
There’s no way these people are being treated humanely. It takes time to establish the infrastructure, train new staff, and do all the other things necessary to expand this much and still treat people humanely.
The conditions must be breaking so many laws, and most of these people haven’t been charged with a crime, right?
We are paying to house (poorly) all of these people, unnecessarily in most cases, when there are plenty of citizens with housing needs. Massive waitlists of people. Hell, abducting working immigrants puts even more people at risk of homelessness. Is he looking to restart Hoovervilles?
Why not? He’s already working on bread lines.
detainee population
a rather forced euphemism
Remember, every accusation is a confession. And republicans abuse dems of faking numbers. If-so fact-so they could be pumping their numbers to get more money from the government without actually having that many people. I mean the number should be zero but I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out these numbers are inflated.
Private companies get about $100 per day per person they imprison. That’s why they want to grab as many as possible. Then it will clog up the courts and they can keep them even longer.
