Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump’s mass detention agenda – report

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Source: theguardian.com

<p>US GAO documents array of costly problems as ICE pursues controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity</p><p>US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">ICE</a>) 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 ongoing mismanagement, congressional investigators warned on Thursday.</p><p>The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) documented costly problems in several initiatives ICE has pursued since Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usimmigration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">and ordered</a> the mass <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/29/trump-immigration-ice-cbp-data" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">arrest and deportation</a> of people whom his administration has deemed should be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/markwayne-mullin-migrants-permanent-residence-tps-ruling" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">forced out</a> of the country.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/ice-detention-cost-millions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>