Blaze News investigates: Biden-Harris closure of largest ICE detention center affirms admin's commitment to open border chaos | Blaze Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : While federal immigration officers are on-site, the facility's day-to-day operations are managed by CoreCivic and, according to ICE, are subject to monthly and bi-annual inspections.
51% : In an effort to prioritize resource[s], ICE will be redirecting resources away from this facility to facilities and contracts that better meet ICE's operational needs.
48% : "A 2014 press release from ICE claimed the Dilley center would "increase its [the agency's] capacity to detain and expedite the removal of adults with children who illegally crossed the Southwest border.
42% : "When asked whether it could confirm or deny the company's claim that it was never approached about a contract renegotiation, ICE did not directly reply to the question.
40% : To address this crisis, the Obama-Biden Administration's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reached out to CoreCivic to build and manage the South Texas Family Residential Center (STFRC).
39% : ICE has reported that the annual cost to run the Dilley detention center is $153.7 million, noting that it is "the most expensive facility in the national detention landscape.
37% : Harris 'dislikes detention and enforcement and would like to get rid of ICE.'Hankinson told Blaze News, "I can't entirely rule out the possibility that this closure is due to legitimate operational reasons, but we should be skeptical of any official reasoning.
36% : "ICE also needs to quickly return illegal aliens back home in order to discourage illegal immigration.
35% : I introduced the Justice for Jocelyn Act to ensure that illegal aliens remain in ICE detention centers when there are beds available.
35% : ICE is currently facing an ongoing lawsuit over the death of a 21-month-old child who died in 2018 shortly after being released from the detention center.
32% : ICE trades 2,400-bed facility for 1,600 beds across detention system in puzzling move amid illegal immigration crisis.
25% : He noted that ICE "needs to fill" those beds, which the Biden-Harris administration has not been doing.
8% : Jayapal, like former Senator Kamala Harris, dislikes detention and enforcement and would like to get rid of ICE.

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