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From Fox News: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ended two programs that provide social services to illegal immigrants who are released into the U.S. interior, telling lawmakers that one brings “immense cost with little improvement” and that another is out of line with ICE’s mission.
The agency responded to Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and 15 members of Congress who wrote to ICE in May asking for more information about the “Alternatives to Detention” program, which monitors illegal immigrants not in ICE detention. The agency defended the program and said it was “an efficient and effective” program for monitoring a segment of illegal immigrants on ICE’s non-detained docket.
ICE only has around 40,000 beds available at one time while it has a non-detained docket of nearly 7.7 million people, a number that has soared during the Biden administration. Of those, just over 181,000 are enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention monitoring program, where migrants are monitored either by an app check-in or a GPS monitor.
The report explained that ICE has ended two programs:
1 – The Wraparound Stabilization Service (WSS), which began in February 2020 and involves working with NGOs to offer “services that provide psychosocial and behavioral health support for vulnerable participants and their families who would benefit from additional stabilization services.” The program was ineffective, with only a 2% compliance rate, and ended in July.
2 – The Young Adult Case Management (YACMP) program, which started in your 2023 in 16 cities. The program offered 18- and 19-year-old illegal aliens legal services, screenings, referrals to social service programs and human trafficking screenings. However, ICE decided the program “does not align with ERO’s mission or priorities.”
Lawmakers also requested information on how many of the illegal aliens in the “Alternatives to Detention” program had been charged or convicted of crimes. ICE revealed that in fiscal year 2024, there were a staggering 3,913 charges and 688 convictions for those in the program, including:
- 10 sex offense convictions,
- 364 traffic offense convictions,
- 2 homicide convictions,
- four kidnapping convictions
- 65 assault convictions.
Fox News reporter Bill Melugin highlighted the story on social media, writing, “ICE has terminated two programs that gave taxpayer funded social services to illegal aliens who have been released into the US, citing “immense cost” and ineffectiveness of the programs. Illegal aliens in one program only had a 2% higher compliance rate than those not in it, despite tens of millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on NGOs to assist the illegal immigrants with things like “psychosocial and behavioral health support.””
NEW: ICE has terminated two programs that gave taxpayer funded social services to illegal aliens who have been released into the US, citing “immense cost” and ineffectiveness of the programs. Illegal aliens in one program only had a 2% higher compliance rate than those not in it,…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 31, 2024
FIRST ON FOX: ICE has ended two programs that provide social services to illegal immigrants, telling lawmakers that one brings “immense cost with little improvement” and that another is out of line with the agency’s mission. https://t.co/2UqONcYhG1 pic.twitter.com/JvpqH6EDsc
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 31, 2024
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