ICE is spending upwards of $1.2 million a day on empty jail beds, according to a new PunchUp analysis of the agency’s own detention data. The biggest culprit, reports the Daily Beast’s new sister investigation Substack, is Camp East Montana, ICE’s tent complex at the Fort Bliss base in El Paso, Texas. There, taxpayers fund 5,000 beds but nightly occupancy averaged just 2,025 this fiscal year. Detention costs an average of $152 per person, per day, according to the National Immigration Forum, putting the annual bill for the ghost beds above $450 million. Tom Latchem exposes the secrets, scandals, and stories that powerful people and institutions want to keep under wraps.