DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent millions on unused bed space while hundreds of thousands of criminal migrants are not being detained by the agency.
There are more than 425,000 convicted criminal noncitizens on ICE’s non-detained docket living in the United States as of July 21, according to data released Thursday by ICE acting Director Patrick Lechleitner and provided to Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas.
This newly released information came shortly after an inspector general report determined that the agency has spent roughly $160 million on unused ICE beds.
There were an additional 222,141 migrants with pending criminal charges also on the non-detained docket list, according to ICE’s letter.
Among those on the non-detained docket are noncitizens convicted of homicide, kidnapping, sexual assault, and…
