Policy Brief | November 2023 - Beyond Repa - ir: ICE’s Abusive Detention

Despite promises to review the overall detention apparatus and close out the worst facilities, the administration has renewed contracts for facilities with records of abuse and is now requesting that Congress fund a dramatic expansion in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) detention budget.1 For years, government watchdogs and civil society have tracked and reported on the lack of complian. [...] transparency and oversight of the inspections to carry out inspections, and moved the process process, improving the quality of ICE inspections, away from the purview of ICE Enforcement and 15 and instituting consequences for failed Removal Operations (ERO). [...] Detention Ombudsman during the Trump The DHS OIG reported in 2018 and again in 2019 administration in 2020 with the aim of establishing that ICE’s inspections and monitoring process an independent oversight body independent from 17 persistently failed to hold ICE and local officials ICE and CBP. [...] Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ODO ICE Facility Inspections, www.ice.gov/foia/odo-facility-inspections (“As of October 1, 2022, the ICE Office of Detention Oversight has the congressionally mandated responsibility to conduct ICE detention facility inspections”). [...] response to a complaint filed with the UN, discussing the various oversight mechanisms that ICE uses to ensure compliance with conditions and the applicable detention standards and discussing the role of CRCL and OIG in oversight and investigations relating to inadequate conditions of detention).