Report-Streamlining-DHS-Overhead-Will-Make-the-Homeland-Safer.pdf

GAO report on waste in DHS and how the security of the country is suffering because of it.

Committee staff
saw example after example of underutilized, wasted or simply vacant space. The most
egregious example was in New York City, New York, where Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) has a vacant 250 bed detention center that has not been used since
the events of 9/11. New detention standards would make it nearly impossible for this facility
to become operational again. As a result, ICE is paying approximately $3.5 million annually
to rent this space, the large majority of which is unusable.