ICE detains foreigners placed in deportation proceedings because of immigration violations, such as entering the U.S. illegally or overstaying a visa, as well as legal immigrants whose status lapses or is revoked because of criminal offenses. Some of those held by the agency have criminal charges or convictions, in addition to being accused of civil immigration violations.
CBS News reporting the regime’s claims as fact.
Are there 73,000+ deportation orders from judges to back those up? Because lately it feels like we’re light on judicial warrants, given all the protesting.
You think they are gonna pay to actually deport them? No fucking way, idk what they are planning but it’s not good.
CoreCivic and other private contractors don’t get paid when people are deported. They want maximum occupancy for as long as possible.
Far-right news outlets should be avoided.
Conservatively I’d say we’re paying private companies over $3.5 million every day to house them.
$47/day.
That’s gotta be way way way too low?
Median for state prison is 60,989 which is $167. This would be cheaper but seems like mega conservative
In September 2025 they reported an average detention cost of $152 per day. So closer to 11M a day.
Who? ICE?
Mine wasn’t ICE specific. If you got a source where ICE says that I’d love to see it.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-immigrant-detention
… No prior administration had ever held an average of more than 50,200 people per day in immigration detention (in FY 2019, during Trump’s first term). As of September, detainees spent an average of 44 days in immigration detention, with each detention averaging $152 per day.
Thanks, much appreciated.
Actually, based on how some Minneapolis detainees described the holding cells, I would believe $47/day.
edit: Oops this reply was originally meant for someone else if you saw it. Still seems low, but I get where you’re coming from
I looked it up to compare. Nazi Germany imprisoned about 1.65 million people according to wiki.
We are not there yet but only 2 orders of magnitude away :(
