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Current and former officials have been allegedly disappointed Immigration and Customs Enforcement The agency is not able to arrest more people in recent months, despite snow. Get an unprecedented $ 45 billion in new funding To expand its detention capabilities as part of Trump administration“Big, Beautiful Bill” spending package in July.
The average number of migrants in custody per day has barely increased since the infusion of funding Immigration The arrest has fallen by 11 percent since June and the administration’s 3,000 persons are well built under the target of the day, although the exile has been three times in total since January.
“There is a lot of disappointment that President’s agenda-When it comes to snow beds, and therefore exile – this is not going to happen, ”a former DHS employee told AtlanticWhich reported on alleged internal stresses.
“The White House worked for months to get a reconciliation bill on the finish line. Why did you advocate for months, saying that you need money if you don’t intend to spend it?”
Officials pointed to some major factors behind the speed, including a report. Homeland Security Secretary Christie NoM required policy Individually sign contracts of over $ 100,000Also the effect of DHS consultant Corey Levandowski.
While advising the department, DHS has appeared to prioritize agreements with the Republican -led courts. Louisiana And Florida Typically low -cost, high -capacity privately instead of moving facilities, federal immigration prisoners to use state detention facilities, which is a stability of the American immigration system for a long time.
The DHS advisor has defended the administration’s strategy, arguing that it is gaining a fair agreement with the prevention providers.
“We are asking all the vendors to provide the best value,” Levandowski told the magazine of his conversation with detention contractors. “They are all back and said,” You know what? We can do better. We can do better because we understand. “
He also dismissed the claims that he and NoM are pursuing state -led agreements with an eye to build NoM’s political profile for the 2028 vice -president campaign, calling this kind of thinking “absurd” and pointed to NoM’s established political profile and connection from his time as Governor of South Dakota.
The Trump administration has said that it uses increased funding to exceed the immigration detention network more than 100,000 beds, although the current capacity seems to be less than this target.
It can complicate the rollout of the concerned White House initiative to use $ 30 billion Hire 10,000 more immigration officers by the end of the year.
As the Trump administration chased what it expects would have a record number of exile, existing detention facilities have faced congestion and poor conditions, according to lawyers and prisoners.
In this financial year, at least 17 people died in immigration, which ended in September, in the last period, marking in the last period One of the most deadly years for immigration prisoners in the last two decades,