07-28-2018, 05:03 PM
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Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"ICE is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night and that number has only been increasing since 2009."
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 in an interview with The Intercept
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez misrepresents ICE’s detention bed quota
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"As a matter of fact, ICE is the only criminal investigative agency, the only enforcement agency in the United States that has a bed quota. So ICE is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night and that number has only been increasing since 2009," Ocasio-Cortez stated.
Ocasio-Cortez’s claim had us wondering: Is ICE required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every night?
Although the experts we spoke to told us ICE faces pressure from a variety of places to detain a large number of people, we found the legislation Ocasio-Cortez was referring to doesn’t require ICE to detain 34,000 people a day. Rather, it requires ICE to maintain 34,000 available beds a day.
‘Beds, not people’
Ocasio-Cortez was referring to a clause in the DHS Appropriations Act of 2016, which states that with the funds it receives from Congress through the act, ICE "shall maintain a level of not less than 34,000 detention beds through September 30, 2016."
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So while Congress requires ICE to make 34,000 beds available each day, it doesn’t require those beds to be filled.
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