detention costs
[3]. Two figures are used in calculating the average daily cost of immigration detention per person: $119 per daily bed is the number ICE has provided in their annual performance report [4] but $159 per daily bed includes ICEâs operational expenses.his funding level would amount to over $5 million per day spent on immigration detention. This funding level would put the current cost to detain an immigrant at approximately $159 per day at a capacity of 31,800.