What specific line items composed ICE’s FY2024 budget (detention, removals, investigations, management) and how much did each receive?
Executive summary
The publicly available documents do not contain a single, agreed line-by-line accounting in the form the question asks; the Department of Homeland Security presented a requested FY2024 ICE topline of $8.7 billion, while congressional summary documents list an enacted or committee figure around $9.6 billion — and ICE’s FY2024 reporting highlights specific program figures such as a roughly $421.5 million operating budget for the ICE Health Service Corps, but do not publish in the sources provided an explicit, sourceable split that labels exact dollar amounts for “detention,” “removals/transportation,” “investigations,” and “management” all together [1] [2] [3].
1. What the DHS request and congressional summaries actually say about ICE’s FY2024 topline
DHS’s published FY2024 budget materials show the Department requested $8.7 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for FY2024, together with specified staffing levels (22,175 positions and 22,007 FTE) intended to fill operational gaps [1]. Congressional appropriations summary materials from the Senate Appropriations Committee describe ICE funding at approximately $9.6 billion in their FY2024 highlights, an increase above prior requests, indicating that different branches reported slightly different topline figures during the appropriations process [2].
2. What program-level numbers are documented in ICE reporting
ICE’s own FY2024 reporting includes program-level figures for some components: for example, the ICE Health Service Corps’ operating budget for FY2024 approached $421.5 million, a concrete line item the agency cites in its annual release about services provided to people in custody [3]. Beyond that, the publicly cited ICE annual report and DHS request in the provided sources describe program functions — Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), detention infrastructure and health services, and management and administration in narrative form — but do not present a single, sourceable table in these documents in which every one of the user’s requested categories (“detention,” “removals,” “investigations,” “management”) is tied to an exact FY2024 dollar amount in the material supplied here [1] [4] [3].
3. Advocacy and analysis reporting that interprets or extrapolates line-item increases
External analysts and advocacy groups interpret appropriations actions differently and have produced large-dollar estimates for detention and removal-related spending in later legislative packages: for example, Brennan Center commentary and other organizations discuss packages that would dramatically expand detention and deportation funding in 2025 and beyond, including claims of enormous increases to the detention budget and multi‑year appropriations that would raise enforcement spending substantially — but those pieces address later bills and reconciliations rather than the FY2024 enacted detail requested here [5] [6]. These sources are analytic and advocacy-oriented and therefore interpret topline shifts and potential transfers [5] [6].
4. Why an exact FY2024 line-item breakdown cannot be confidently given from the provided sources
The sources provided contain three different, relevant types of data — the DHS FY2024 request ($8.7B) with staffing numbers [1], Senate appropriations highlights mentioning $9.6B for ICE as a committee figure [2], and ICE’s own program reporting on specific components such as the Health Service Corps ($421.5M) [3] — but none of these documents in the set supplied include an explicit, consistent, fully itemized FY2024 table that assigns precise dollar amounts to the four categories named (detention, removals, investigations, management) in a single authoritative source. Therefore any single-number allocation presented here would require drawing on additional appropriations tables or agency budget appendices not included among the supplied materials [1] [2] [3].
5. Balanced interpretation and next steps for a definitive accounting
A cautious reading: the DHS-requested FY2024 ICE budget was $8.7 billion and the Senate Appropriations summary lists roughly $9.6 billion for ICE, with ICE reporting concrete sub-allocations such as the $421.5 million Health Service Corps operating budget; advocates and budget analysts cite much larger increases in subsequent legislation [1] [2] [3] [5]. To produce the exact FY2024 dollar split across detention, removals/transportation, HSI investigations, and management, the authoritative documents to consult are the enacted FY2024 Consolidated Appropriations tables and ICE’s FY2024 congressional budget justification or the Department’s detailed CAS (Common Appropriations Structure) tables — documents not included in the set provided here [1] [2].