griff: funding 45,000. they have 54,000 in custody. not uncommon for unassigned funds within a single department to be transferred between agencies to make up for any short when the fiscal year ends which is october. brian, ainsley, steve. steve: thank you very much. in 2018 the dhs diverted $169 million disaster management and for ice detention and deportation. they have done it before. ainsley: it s going to the adult detention beds, transportation cost. temporary hearing facilities. if you ask why, the officials down there are saying the reason we have to do this the has to use emergency funding congress refuses to pay for extra beds. steve: they are reprogramming money. we have been talking about this for nine months. brian: tom homan says why are we talking about this now? we have always done it. listen. in the last decade i think money has been reprogrammed to ice eight out of 10 years. almost every year under the obama administration we had to reprogram money because
along with the emergency that is going on, it requires the agency, the department to reprogram funding. it is a common thing to happen. if you don t have bed space for adults, they will wait in custody for too long, or they get released like their families do, and that would effectively give you an opening order. the department of homeland security notified congress about its plans last month he is a 30 day notification. back is set to end on sunday. they say that they intend to reprogram and transfer $116 million to fund i.c.e. single adult attention beth, and millions of dollars to establish and operate temporary hearing facilities along the southwest border. that s $271 million in all. $155 million coming from fema disaster relief funds. this is a major storm heads
million from fema s disaster relief fund to pay for immigrant detention centers and temporary hearing facilities for asylum seekers waiting in mexico. this money was meant to be used to respond to hurricanes and other natural disasters. instead the trump administration now using it to fund his immigration plan. and today one of his ton border officials insisting they won t hold migrant children indefinitely. they just want to be able to threaten it. this is not about indefinite detention. if anybody says that that s an absolutely. so you put the word indefinite in there. it doesn t mean they ll have indefinite. it s in order to get them processed, stay or go, right? that s exactly right, brian. what we ve seen is time and time again like you said if we put limitations this there they gain the system and get past that and end up having to release them so putting that word in there allows us to maintain them during the process.