'Why is the government bankrolling a shuttered facility on behalf of a for-profit company?' asked Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin.
Grilled by Pocan on just how much the U.S. was paying to keep the center"empty," Hayes revealed that the government was spending what amounted to $600 a day for each of the 1,200 beds at the facility—just $150 less than the $750 per bed the U.S. was paying when the center was in use.
"While the current average daily cost to care for a child at an Influx facility is approximately between $600 and $775 based on our experience at the Homestead Temporary Influx shelter, this cost estimate is reduced considerably as no children are receiving care there and staffing has been reduced at the facility," the spokesperson said."It does not cost $720,000/day at Homestead because the facility is empty of children.
"Maintaining staff and facilities at Homestead is critical to ensuring ORR will be adequately prepared to accept children from CBP should we face another influx crisis in the coming months," they said. Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly sat on the board of D.C. Capital Partners before joining the administration in November 2017—andannounced in July that it would be probing"Where I'm from, we refer to this as not passing the smell test," Pocan said."It seems like there's very little oversight happening on the Trump administration's part."
Now, however, at least as far as the Homestead detention facility is concerned, the future of that growth appears uncertain.
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