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Posted on: October 23, 2016 at 15:18:29 CT
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Of course the cost will be in the hundreds of millions..but why quibble over a little money.
Record Immigrant Numbers Force Homeland Security to Search for New Jail Space
U.S. officials expect number of undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation to reach 45,000 in the coming months
Homeland Security officials are quietly scrambling to find 5,000 more prison and jail beds to handle a record number of undocumented immigrants being detained in the U.S., according to officials familiar with the discussions.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson met Tuesday with senior leaders at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the Customs and Border Protection agency—both of which are in his department—so officials could review their plans to handle thousands more people expected to cross the southwest border with Mexico in coming weeks, the officials said.
ICE is currently holding more than 40,000 people in detention centers—more than it has ever had in custody before—and has warned budget officials that it needs a quick infusion of $136 million more just to keep running detention centers until early December, according to internal Department of Homeland Security documents and officials.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on internal agency discussions. The agency is “committed to continuing to ensure that individuals are detained in a safe, secure and humane manner in line with our detention standards and our values as a nation,” she said.
The department had previously insisted that ICE is managing its operations at current levels, despite what she called “an uptick” in detentions.
But the problem is going to get worse before it gets better, officials told Mr. Johnson Tuesday. Part of the surge is due to thousands of Haitians who left their country after it was stricken by a severe earthquake in 2010, fleeing to South America and taking several years to make it to the U.S. southern border, officials say. The influx in detained immigrants is not limited to Haitians, but they are a big part of it.
More than 5,000 Haitians have now reached the Mexican towns of Tijuana and Mexicali and are preparing to present themselves at U.S. ports of entry, officials said. U.S. and Mexican officials have sought to avoid a crush at the San Ysidro border crossing in California by having the would-be entrants approach the border in a steady stream rather than all at once, officials said.
Last year, U.S. immigration facilities housed between 300 and 400 Haitians at any one time. Now, CBP is sending double that number every week to ICE for detention, officials said.
Put another way, about 100 new Haitians are being detained each day, and that figure is expected to double in coming weeks, officials told Mr. Johnson at the meeting. Overall, ICE is currently holding more than 2,500 Haitians expected to be deported, officials said.
When Haitian immigrants present themselves to the CBP at a U.S. port of entry seeking asylum, they are typically turned over to ICE for detention pending deportation.
Homeland Security officials expect the overall number of individuals who are in jail awaiting deportation to balloon to 45,000 in the coming weeks and months. One internal projection calculates the figure could reach 47,000 by next June, according to people familiar with the discussions.
It is difficult to predict when the number of detainees will start declining, because the U.S. has temporarily suspended deportation flights to Haiti as a result of the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew.
ICE officials are scrambling to sign contracts with jail or detention facilities, whether it is private contractors or state and local jails. They need so many new beds so quickly, according to officials familiar with the work, that they may have to temporarily ignore requirements adopted five years ago to ensure minimum quality standards for immigrants likely to be deported.
There are also concerns that some of the new jail spaces may not conform to regulations adopted as a result of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, officials said. “They’re scraping the bottom looking for beds,’’ one official said.
ICE is specifically working to buy jail space in Youngstown, Ohio; Cibola County, N.M.; Aurora, Colo.; and Robstown, Texas, officials said.
Record Immigrant Numbers Force Homeland Security to Search for New Jail Space
U.S. officials expect number of undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation to reach 45,000 in the coming months
Homeland Security officials are quietly scrambling to find 5,000 more prison and jail beds to handle a record number of undocumented immigrants being detained in the U.S., according to officials familiar with the discussions.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson met Tuesday with senior leaders at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the Customs and Border Protection agency—both of which are in his department—so officials could review their plans to handle thousands more people expected to cross the southwest border with Mexico in coming weeks, the officials said.
ICE is currently holding more than 40,000 people in detention centers—more than it has ever had in custody before—and has warned budget officials that it needs a quick infusion of $136 million more just to keep running detention centers until early December, according to internal Department of Homeland Security documents and officials.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on internal agency discussions. The agency is “committed to continuing to ensure that individuals are detained in a safe, secure and humane manner in line with our detention standards and our values as a nation,” she said.
The department had previously insisted that ICE is managing its operations at current levels, despite what she called “an uptick” in detentions.
But the problem is going to get worse before it gets better, officials told Mr. Johnson Tuesday. Part of the surge is due to thousands of Haitians who left their country after it was stricken by a severe earthquake in 2010, fleeing to South America and taking several years to make it to the U.S. southern border, officials say. The influx in detained immigrants is not limited to Haitians, but they are a big part of it.
More than 5,000 Haitians have now reached the Mexican towns of Tijuana and Mexicali and are preparing to present themselves at U.S. ports of entry, officials said. U.S. and Mexican officials have sought to avoid a crush at the San Ysidro border crossing in California by having the would-be entrants approach the border in a steady stream rather than all at once, officials said.
Last year, U.S. immigration facilities housed between 300 and 400 Haitians at any one time. Now, CBP is sending double that number every week to ICE for detention, officials said.
Put another way, about 100 new Haitians are being detained each day, and that figure is expected to double in coming weeks, officials told Mr. Johnson at the meeting. Overall, ICE is currently holding more than 2,500 Haitians expected to be deported, officials said.
When Haitian immigrants present themselves to the CBP at a U.S. port of entry seeking asylum, they are typically turned over to ICE for detention pending deportation.
Homeland Security officials expect the overall number of individuals who are in jail awaiting deportation to balloon to 45,000 in the coming weeks and months. One internal projection calculates the figure could reach 47,000 by next June, according to people familiar with the discussions.
It is difficult to predict when the number of detainees will start declining, because the U.S. has temporarily suspended deportation flights to Haiti as a result of the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew.
ICE officials are scrambling to sign contracts with jail or detention facilities, whether it is private contractors or state and local jails. They need so many new beds so quickly, according to officials familiar with the work, that they may have to temporarily ignore requirements adopted five years ago to ensure minimum quality standards for immigrants likely to be deported.
There are also concerns that some of the new jail spaces may not conform to regulations adopted as a result of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, officials said. “They’re scraping the bottom looking for beds,’’ one official said.
ICE is specifically working to buy jail space in Youngstown, Ohio; Cibola County, N.M.; Aurora, Colo.; and Robstown, Texas, officials said.
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How about these people. - GA Tiger MU - 10/23 15:18:29