ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump’s mass detention agenda – report

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Right · Published: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:54:34 GMT

GAO documents array of costly problems as ICE pursues controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacityUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity – and the total will likely rise due to continuing mismanagement, congressional investigators warned on Thursday.The US government accountability office (GAO) documented costly problems in several initiatives ICE has pursued since Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025 and ordered the mass arrest and deportation of people his administration has deemed should be forced out of the country. Continue reading...

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