ICE is struggling to detain more people despite a huge influx of money. And officials are blaming one man [View all]
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Source: The Independent
Tuesday 07 October 2025 09:58 BST
Current and former officials are reportedly frustrated that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency hasn’t been able to arrest and detain more people in recent months, despite ICE getting an unprecedented $45 billion in new funding to expand its detention capacities as part of the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” spending package in July.
The average number of migrants in custody per day has barely grown since the infusion of funding, while immigration arrests have fallen 11 percent since June and remain well below the administration’s reported 3,000-person-per-day goal, though deportations have tripled overall since January.
“There’s extreme frustration that the president’s agenda — when it comes to ICE beds, and therefore deportations — is not going to happen,” a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employee told The Atlantic, which reported on the alleged internal tensions.
“The White House worked for months to get the reconciliation bill over the finish line. Why did you just lobby Congress for months saying you needed the money if you don’t intend to spend it?”
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-funding-detention-corey-lewandowski-b2840533.html
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