ICE shuts down programs offering services to illegal immigrants, citing 'immense' costs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The agency defended the program and said it was "an efficient and effective" program for monitoring a segment of illegal immigrants on ICE's non-detained docket.ICE only has around 40,000 beds available to it at one time, while it has a non-detained docket of nearly 7.7 million people - a number that has soared during the Biden administration.
53% : One is the Wraparound Stabilization Service (WSS), which ICE says began in February 2020 and involves working with NGOs to offer "services that provide psychosocial and behavioral health support for vulnerable participants and their families who would benefit from additional stabilization services.
51% : ICE said that 98.6% of those with court tracking appeared at their court hearings overall, while 90.4% appeared for final hearings.
48% : Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ended two programs that provide social services to illegal immigrants who are released into the U.S. interior, telling lawmakers that one brings "immense cost with little improvement" and that another is out of line with ICE's mission.
47% : "As a result, ERO determined WSS was not cost effective enough to continue paying for these services when they did not benefit ICE or help the agency further its mission.
46% : "ICE is a law enforcement agency not a charity.
45% : "ICE had previously cited difficulties with the program including a cumbersome identification and referral process, a substantial increase in participants and a lack of resources.
39% : "ICE says the program stopped referrals in July, and that the program was ineffective in what it sought to do, having only a 2% higher compliance rate from those who took part in services compared to those who did not.
32% : The billions of dollars DHS has wasted to bring millions of illegal aliens into the country and provide them excessive amenities should be redirected to getting every illegal alien safely back to their home country," Lora Ries, director of The Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPRies called the services a "boondoggle" and said "there are several other similar initiatives that must meet the same fate under President Trump.
26% : The agency responded to Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and 15 members of Congress, who wrote to ICE in May asking for more information about the "Alternatives to Detention" program, which monitors illegal immigrants not in ICE detention.

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