BMH:It would be much cheaper overall to build massive detention facilities and hold them near the POE for as long as it takes.

SNIP The federal budget for fiscal year 2023 still provides ICE with $1.4 billion for a total of 25,000 detention beds. This spending is a waste. It should be invested instead in building a federal system of universal representation for immigration courts, similar to the public defender system used in criminal courts.Jul 20, 2022SNIP

vera.org - Ice is wasting millions of dollars on unnecessary detention beds

SNIP According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, by late 2022, there were 1,565,966 people waiting for their asylum cases to be heard.Jan 23, 2024 SNIP

immigrationforum.org - Explainer asylum backlogs

1,400,000,000 /25,000 = $ 56,000 ; 56,000 x 1,565,966 = $ 87,694,096,000 or 87.7 billion for 1 year

Just think, in around 12-13 years we could spend a trillion dollars.

I think I would rather build the administrative system to have a final decision ~ 6 months.