President Biden has sent his budget for FY 2024 to Capitol Hill, and - just like last year - he is trying to slash ICE detention beds for illegal aliens, even as CBP encounters at the Southwest border hover at historical record levels.
ICE provides detention not only for the aliens its officers and agents catch, but also for inadmissible aliens encountered by CBP at the borders and the ports of entry.
ICE defines its detention capacity in terms of "Average daily population", the number of detention beds it has available on a daily basis.
DHS led Congress to believe that it did not need more detention capacity because it represented in its fiscal year 2022 and 2023 budget requests that "a reduction in detention capacity level will not impede ICE's ability to apprehend, detain, and remove noncitizens that present a threat to national security, border security, and public safety."
A portion of detention cost is tied to levels of ADP, however the majority of detention costs are fixed and not influenced by ADP. An increase in ADP will lower the bed rate and vice versa, all else equal.
There is nothing "Efficient", let alone "Effective", in how ICE is leaving detention beds empty, and their claims to the contrary are offensive; but let me translate that D.C. word salad. When it estimated its average direct adult bed cost per day, ICE assumed that it would fill those beds.
Criminal alien removals are falling and Southwest border releases continue, even while ICE detention beds sit vacant at a cost of more than $163 million.
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