Fund 100,000 immigration detention beds
What the document says“ICE should be funded for a significant increase in detention space, raising the daily available number of beds to 100,000.”
The chapter asks Congress to mandate and fund additional detention space, raising the number of beds available each day to 100,000, and separately to fund at least 20,000 Enforcement and Removal Operations officers.
What the document actually says“ICE should be funded for a significant increase in detention space, raising the daily available number of beds to 100,000.”
Give ICE money for many more beds. It should have 100,000 ready each day.
ICE holds people while their cases are decided. It needs beds to do that. The book says it should have 100,000 beds. That is far more than it has now.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14
2025-07-04 · 139 Stat. 72
Section 90003 appropriates $45,000,000,000 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for fiscal year 2025, available until September 30, 2029, for single adult detention capacity and family residential center capacity. That is the funded increase in detention space the chapter asked Congress to mandate. The law sets no target: 100,000 daily beds appears nowhere in it, the number of beds the money buys is left to the agency, and the section adds terms for how long families may be held that the proposal does not raise. Executive Order 14159, also among the candidates, directs the Secretary to use all legally available resources for detention facilities but appropriates nothing.
The same law gives $45 billion to the immigration agency for detention space. The money can pay for beds for single adults and for family centers. That is the rise in space the chapter wanted. But the law sets no target of 100,000 beds, and the agency decides how many it buys.