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https://www.as-coa.org/articles/week...ention-centers
Before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002, CCA never spent more than $500,000 annually lobbying the federal government. By 2013 that figure was up to $1.8 million as CCA took in more than $208 million in revenues from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts. Earlier this month The Washington Post revealed the details of the Obama administration's $1 billion contract with CCA to construct two detention facilities in Texas in light of the surge of migrants from Central America in 2014.
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ICE's Billion-Dollar Budget
Each year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requests funds to detain and deport individuals, a figure that has risen from $700 million in FY2005 to over $2 billion today. Alternatives to detention, such as the use of electronic ankle monitors, have become a growing part of policy as well.
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$2 billion a year to keep illegal immigrants in detention centres that are barely adequate. How much will it cost Americans, who always bitch about their taxes or so it seems, to keep them in better accommodation? $4 or $5 billion a year maybe. How much to build better and more secure walls or fences in areas that are currently used by illegal immigrants to walk across?
Or do you believe the money for detention centres grows on trees or delivered by a unicorn?