of Justice in 2004, to carrying out detention and deportation activities as its core focus. Nearly 60 percent of ICE’s $7.1 billion budget goes to detention and removal operations. Such removal operations tend to focus on individuals who are being prosecuted simply for illegal entry or re-entry, have no other criminal history and pose no threat to national security. These removal operations have torn apart families and communities and disrupted businesses throughout the country. (6) ICE contracts out billions of taxpayer dollars every year to private, for-profit prison companies that have eschewed transparency and accountability, and operate at significantly higher expense to taxpayers than lower-cost alternatives to detention. As of August 2016, nearly three-quarters of the average daily population in immigration detention were held in facilities operated by private prison companies. (7) Numerous Federal oversight bodies, including the Government Accountability Office and the DHS Office of the Inspector General, have documented a disregard for congressional oversight and substandard conditions and inhumane treatment of those in ICE detention, which contravene ICE’s own standards and Federal and international legal protections. In addition, other credible reports indicate violations of due process, and noncompliance with international and domestic legal protections. ICE detention facilities fail to meet ICE’s own standards and have no meaningful oversight. (8) The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General issued a December 2017 report cataloguing violations of compliance with ICE detention standards regarding conditions for detainees that undermine the protection of detainees’ rights, their humane treatment, and the provision of a safe and healthy environment. (9) A June 2018 report by the DHS OIG titled, ICE’s Inspections and Monitoring of Detention Facilities Do Not Lead to Sustained Compliance or Systemic Improvements found that neither the inspections nor the onsite monitoring ensure