What were ICE’s annual appropriations (O&S, custody, and ERO) for FY2016–FY2025 in a single table?
Executive summary
A direct, single-table accounting of ICE’s annual appropriations for Operations & Support (O&S), detention/custody, and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) for FY2016–FY2025 could not be assembled from the reporting and documents provided; the DHS FY26 budget justification, GAO review of ICE financial management, Congress/CRS backgrounders, and USAspending links point to where those line items live but do not supply a consolidated year-by-year table in the materials supplied here [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. The user’s request and what the sources actually contain
The request asks for a single table listing ICE’s annual appropriations for three specific budget lines (O&S, custody, and ERO) across FY2016–FY2025, but the supplied DHS FY26 Congressional Budget Justification describes the O&S account structure and FY26 planning without extracting historical year-by-year appropriation totals in a ready-made table, and the GAO report focuses on ICE’s budget execution problems rather than providing a consolidated historical appropriation table for those three accounts [1] [2].
2. Why an authoritative table exists but wasn’t in the supplied snippets
Congressional appropriations and agency budget justifications typically contain the figures needed — DHS/ICE budget justifications show requested and enacted amounts by account, Congress/CRS summaries discuss overall DHS appropriations, and USAspending.gov posts actual amounts by federal account — however, the excerpts provided do not include a precompiled FY2016–FY2025 table for the O&S, custody, and ERO lines, so those exact year-by-year dollar amounts cannot be responsibly asserted from the supplied material [1] [3] [4].
3. What can be assembled from the supplied sources and what remains missing
From the DHS FY26 justification one can identify where O&S is described and how ICE presents program structure and FY26 requests, and from GAO one can confirm ICE frequently relied on funding transfers and additional sources beyond base appropriations — facts that matter when interpreting any simple year-by-year table — but neither document in the provided set supplies a verified columnar list of enacted annual appropriations for O&S, custody, and ERO spanning FY2016–FY2025 [1] [2].
4. A transparent single “table” based on the provided material
The following single table reflects what the current reporting supports: it lists each fiscal year and, for each account, either the enacted dollar (if provided) or the transparent statement “Not available in provided sources.” This is not a claim of zero funding; it is an explicit acknowledgment that the supplied sources do not contain the numeric line-item history requested.
Year | O&S (enacted) | Custody/Detention (enacted) | ERO (enacted)
FY2016 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2017 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2018 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2019 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2020 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2021 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2022 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2023 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2024 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; p1_s7)
FY2025 | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; [5]; [3]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; [5]; p1_s7) | Not available in provided sources (see [1]; [5]; p1_s7)
Each “Not available in provided sources” cell is included because the supplied documents either describe account purposes, discuss proposals or contingency funds, or analyze budget execution — they do not present a consolidated enacted-dollar table for these exact accounts and years [1] [5] [3] [2] [4].
5. How to produce the authoritative year-by-year table (next steps and sources to query)
To compile a verified table: pull enacted appropriation totals for ICE’s O&S, Custody/Detention, and ERO accounts from annual DHS/ICE Congressional Budget Justifications and the enacted appropriations language (House/Senate Appropriations reports) for FY2016–FY2025, and cross-check with USAspending.gov’s federal account pages and GAO notes on transfers and supplemental funding to capture any post-enactment transfers or emergency supplemental allocations that would affect totals; the DHS FY26 justification identifies the O&S account structure and should be used as the anchor for FY2025/FY2026, while USAspending and congressional reports provide enacted numbers for earlier years [1] [3] [4] [2].
6. Caveats and interpretive flags
Any single-table summary of appropriations must flag that ICE’s effective available funds in a given year can differ from enacted line items because of intra-DHS transfers, emergency or contingency funds, rescissions, and supplemental enactments — a point the GAO highlights about ICE’s reliance on funding beyond annual appropriations [2]; similarly, aggregated media/commentary figures (for example, totals cited in advocacy pieces) may combine multi-year packages or supplemental allocations and therefore should be verified against primary Treasury/appropriations records [6].