ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump’s mass detention agenda – report
Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service vehicles are seen outside an industrial warehouse recently purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as a detention center on February 10, 2026 in Social Circle, Georgia. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenDepartment of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service vehicles are seen outside an industrial warehouse recently purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as a detention center on February 10, 2026 in Social Circle, Georgia. ICE and DHS offered no immediate additional comment on the report.Shortly after Trump returned to the White House, the government began blowing money by hastily pursuing plans to detain more people who, by the administration’s reckoning, were in the US illegally, the report found.
- ▪Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service vehicles are seen outside an industrial warehouse recently purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as a detention center on February 10, 2026 in Social Circle
- ▪Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenDepartment of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service vehicles are seen outside an industrial warehouse recently purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fo
- ▪ICE and DHS offered no immediate additional comment on the report.Shortly after Trump returned to the White House, the government began blowing money by hastily pursuing plans to detain more people who, by the administration’s reckoning, we
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Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service vehicles are seen outside an industrial warehouse recently purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as a detention center on February 10, 2026 in Social Circle, Georgia. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenDepartment of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service vehicles are seen outside an industrial warehouse recently purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as a detention center on February 10, 2026 in Social Circle, Georgia.
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