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For: Real America News Updated 20 Apr 2022, 03: pm EDT
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) was involved in controversy after it became known that it paid $ ,,000 dollars for hotel rooms for immigrants who were mostly not employed.
According to a report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), “ICE did not adequately justify the need to contract with a single source to house migrant families and spent about $18,03,00 dollars for space and services in six hotels that were largely unused between April and June of 2015″, indicates the report.
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The arrangement with a single contractor, the firm Endeavors, resulted in the spending millions of dollars for rooms in hotels that were not used, he added.
In addition, Endeavors failed to comply with the new sanitary protocols of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in English) and with appropriate COVID-testing to migrant families, details.
That is, there were families that ICE did not test for COVID before transporting them to hotels, and Endeavors staff did not always test them upon arrival or departure from hotels,” the report adds.
This “put migrant families and the surrounding population at risk of contracting COVID-19”, he details.
The OIG explained that between April and September of 2022 conducted remote and on-site inspections of ICE hotels housing migrant families and, in the course of those inspections, identified reasons to be concerned about the contract and the care of the detainees.
“At the beginning of 2021, ICE anticipated another increase in border crossings by family units and, to increase its lodging capacity ICE signed a $86,900,03 dollars for the period March to September, for the provision of 1, 239 beds and other necessary services in hotels”, says the report.
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