"A PDF that Department of Homeland Security officials provided to New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte's office about a new effort to build "mega" detention and processing centers across the United States contains embedded comments and metadata identifying the people who worked on it. The seemingly accidental exposure of the identities of DHS personnel who crafted Immigration and Customs Enforcement's mega detention center plan lands amid widespread public pushback against the expansion of ICE detention centers and the department's brutal immigration enforcement tactics."
"In a note embedded on top of an FAQ question, "What is the average length of stay for the aliens?" Tim Kaiser, the deputy chief of staff for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, asked David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive whom The Washington Post described as an adviser overseeing an ICE division that manages detention center contracts, to "Please confirm" that the average stay for the new mega detention centers would be 60 days."
"DHS did not respond to a request for comment about what the three men's role in the DRI project is, nor did it answer questions about whether Florentino had access to a PDF processor subscription that might have enabled him to scrub metadata and comments from the PDF before sending it to the New Hampshire governor. (The so-called Department of Government Efficiency spent last year slashing the number of software licenses across the federal government.)"
Department of Homeland Security officials provided a PDF to New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte's office that contains embedded comments and metadata identifying personnel involved in a plan to build 'mega' detention and processing centers across the United States. The document concerns ICE's Detention Reengineering Initiative (DRI) and lists Jonathan Florentino, director of ICE's Newark Field Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations, as the author. An embedded note shows Tim Kaiser asking David Venturella to confirm a 60-day average length of stay for detainees, and Venturella responding that he would prefer 30 days but 60 is acceptable. DHS did not answer questions about staff roles or whether metadata was scrubbed before release. The file indicates ICE intends to update a new detention model by year-end.
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