DHS Watchdog Launches Audit Into Noem’s Warehouse Purchases

DHS Investigates Noem's $38B Warehouse Program

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has launched a probe into the $38 billion warehouse-to-detention program championed by former Secretary Kristi Noem, according to a person familiar with the matter. The department’s inspector general is expected to announce an “audit of ICE’s acquisition of detention space,” which will review all of the department’s warehouse purchases, a signature policy of…

Noem's ICE Warehouse Program Under Investigation

DHS Watchdog Launches Audit Into Noem’s Warehouse Purchases

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem oversaw the purchase of at least 11 warehouses to hold immigration detainees, a program that has now been paused. Mariam Zuhaib/APThe Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog announced an audit Wednesday into a now-paused plan to turn warehouses into immigration detention centers.Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $38 billion program would have housed more than 92,000 immigr…

DHS Watchdog Launches Probe Into Massive ICE Detention Spending Program - Real News Now

Federal investigators are now scrutinizing a multibillion-dollar ICE detention expansion program approved under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, raising new questions about how taxpayer money was spent during one of the administration’s most aggressive immigration enforcement pushes. According to reports, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has opened an investigation into whether ICE properly purchased…

DHS watchdog probes Kristi Noem’s $38 billion ICE warehouse program

DHS’s Office of Inspector General has already opened a separate inquiry into Noem’s contracting process

DHS watchdog investigating $38B ICE program backed by Kristi Noem, her lover Corey Lewandowski

The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) has announced the probe "[t]o determine to what extent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] purchased and converted facilities for detention space that meets its operational need in a cost-effective manner."