ICE wasted millions in taxpayer dollars in rush to expand detention capacity, watchdog says

The Trump administration's deadly immigration crackdown has not only resulted in widespread abuse of detained immigrants, it has also wasted millions of dollars on facilities and services that were never used, were quickly abandoned, or were far more expensive than necessary, according to an audit…

The Government Accountability Office reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in a rush to expand its detention capacity. CBS News data journalist Julia Ingram has the details.

ICE has received more than $75 billion to expand operations since President Trump returned to office — and wasted millions on scaled-back and mismanaged projects, a new GAO report found.

ICE's aim to quickly build its detention capacity has wasted millions of dollars as the Trump administration took a spend-first, ask-questions-later approach, the government's top watchdog said in a withering new audit Thursday.