According to CIVIC, a detention
watchdog, only 2.4 percent of those complaints were investigated. So I could go on, Mr. Chairman, but I think what this amendment is
trying to say is we desperately need to ensure that we use the funds
that we are appropriating here, the funds that we are taking away, in
order to make sure that we have accountability for the Department of
Homeland Security, and to make sure, for example, that when we have
Prison Rape Elimination Act regulations to prevent sexual assault in
immigration detention, that we have adequate funding to the Department
of Homeland Security's Civil Rights and Civil Liberties department so
that they can carry out the audits to ensure that immigration detention
facilities are in compliance with those regulations. Mr. Chairman, I hope that my colleagues will accept that we still are
going to have plenty of money for ICE to do its job, but we want to
make sure we have accountability.
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