Detention Centres: Immigrants and Officers

detention centres: Part of the problem, it said in a report, is that deportation officers are routinely assigned duties beyond overseeing their caseloads, including checking in immigrants for routine interviews or driving immigrants from detention centres to court, according to Metro News. The result is that these officers don't have enough time to make sure travel and identity documents are gathered for people ordered back to their home countries.ICE will likely not be able to keep up with growing numbers of deportable immigrants the report said. The Homeland Security Department's inspector general found that ICE deportation officers are routinely assigned to manage thousands of cases at a time and are so overburdened that the agency likely isn't deporting all the immigrants it could. They said that ICE couldn't explain why caseloads were so heavy or how staffing decisions and assignments were made. ICE agreed with all of the recommendations and said the agency is working on fixes. The auditors made five recommendations, including that ICE come up with a plan to appropriately staff deportation operations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.