Following the Money: New Information about the Federal Government’s Billion Dollar Immigration Detention and Bond Operations

Abstract

KEY FINDINGS

– Immigrant communities suffer aloss of approximately $43-$45 million each year from money paid into the immigration bond system.

– The amount of money in DHS’s unclaimed bond account alone has reached an all-time high of
over $200 million.

– The immigration bond system incentivizes ICE to incarcerate more noncitizens by allowing ICE to use money it collects from breached bonds to pay for more detention bed space.

Details

Publish Date:
May 9, 2019
Format:
Report
Citation(s):
  • Following the Money: New Information about the Federal Government’s Billion Dollar Immigration Detention and Bond Operations, Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic & UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, May 2019.
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