U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be severely undercounting the number of people it has in immigration detention. A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—a congressional oversight agency—published last week found that ICE’s data contained glaring mistakes, leading to a significant undercount of people in immigration detention. The GAO’s report also found inconsistencies between different ICE field offices regarding data collection practices, including recording of data from individuals identified as “vulnerable” populations.
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Since their unforgettable debut at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games, the Refugee Olympic team, which represents millions of refugees and forcibly displaced people worldwide, keeps making history. This summer at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the team won its first-ever medal. Cindy Ngamba, a Cameroonian refugee who now lives in the UK, won the Olympic Bronze medal in the women’s middleweight boxing category. She is one of 37 athletes who competed on the international stage under the flag of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Refugee team.
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Border security continues to be one of the most contested topics during the 2024 presidential election. But the actual cost of immigration enforcement--both on the border and within the interior of the country--is discussed far less often.
Did you know that since 2003, the U.S. government has spent an estimated $409 billion on the agencies that carry out immigration enforcement?
This recently updated fact sheet from the American Immigration Council discusses the costs of border security, interior enforcement, and funding for the U.S. immigration enforcement system at large.
Read more: The Cost of Immigration Enforcement and Border Security
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