Report says ICE wasted millions on detention expansion plans
An investigation says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing plans to expand detention capacity without adequate information. The report says continuing mismanagement could increase the total, but the supplied material gives no itemised costs or details of the projects.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars on plans to increase detention capacity, according to an investigation reported by ABC News US. The investigation describes the projects as uninformed plans, indicating that agencies pursued them without an adequate basis for the proposed expansion.
It says the spending has already reached tens of millions of dollars. The report further says the total is likely to rise because mismanagement is continuing. The available material does not identify the individual projects, the agencies involved beyond ICE and other unspecified bodies, or the period over which the spending occurred.
It also provides no itemised accounting of the money, no explanation of how the plans were approved and no response from ICE or the other agencies. The supplied information does not say whether any projects have been cancelled or whether funds can be recovered. The investigation’s central finding is that public money has been spent pursuing detention-capacity plans that were not adequately informed.
It presents ongoing mismanagement as a reason the financial loss may grow, but gives no further quantified estimate.
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