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Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Detention and Removal

The Detention and Removal program detain and removes aliens as part of the enforcement of the nation's immigration laws.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Detention and Removal needs to establish performance measures and collect more reliable and accurate performance data.
  • Detention and Removal should develop a cost model for detention and removal costs. This model should also develop detention and removal needs in conjunction with immigration enforcment initiatives, including Border Patrol and ICE Office of Investigations.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Continuing the progress in cutting detention time through efficiences in the removal process.
  • Collecting critical peformance data for program's measures.
  • Developing a cost model for the program

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