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Listen • 6:59 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Northwest Detention Center is pictured in Tacoma, Wash., in 2017. It s now called the Northwest ICE Processing Center. The sprawling detention center in Tacoma, Wash., housed more than 1,300 immigrants on average at the height of former President Donald Trump s immigration crackdown. Now nearly four out of every five beds at the facility are empty. That s because Immigration and Customs Enforcement released hundreds of people to lower the risk of COVID-19, and because the agency is arresting and detaining fewer unauthorized immigrants under orders from President Biden. But that doesn t translate into savings for the U.S. government or the American taxpayer. In fact, because of the way ICE structures its contracts with private companies and localities that own and operate the detention centers, the agency guarantees it will pay for a minimum number of beds whether they are filled or not.

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