[ncalburt]

Do you understand we will now have a Law Preventing building any beds again .

We are way worse off than before the shut down .

We got rolled by the Dems

[Sacajaweau]

We have a 40,000 limit...approved by Congress. The Dems wanted it lowered to about 16,000. That's not going to happen.

With new money, we might be able to get these folks sent back to their country and empty those beds.

[semimojo]

Do you understand we will now have a Law Preventing building any beds again .

That's what the Dems wanted but they didn't get it.

It sounds like what they got is the status quo where Congress explicitly provides enough money for 40k beds and ICE finds enough "emergency" funds from other parts of their budget to detain more people - currently about 49k.

The Dems wanted the 40k cap to be firm, but lost.

The challenge will be pulling enough money from other parts of the budget to fund more beds.

They can also try to lower the cost per bed to make the appropriated money go further.