A government watchdog office found numerous problems with a contract ICE awarded to Endeavors to house migrant families near the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement paid nearly $17 million for unused, empty beds last year after entering into a contract with a Texas company to house migrant families in hotel rooms in Arizona and Texas, according to a report published this week by a government watchdog office.
Two of the hotels were in the Phoenix metro area; one was in Yuma; two were in El Paso; and a sixth was in Pearsall, Texas. The company did not follow proper health care protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at a time when cases were on the rise as variants swept around the globe, the report said.
"ICE used this exemption to competition based on an urgent need to obtain Emergency Family Staging Centers and meet its critical mission of housing, feeding, transporting, and providing medical attention to thousands of noncitizen families," Stephen Rancone, ICE's chief financial officer and senior component accountable official, said in a letter responding to the report.
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