 In October 2005, Michael Chertoff, then Secretary of Homeland Security, said that DHS would "return every single illegal entrant" apprehended by U.S. authorities without exception and would make use of $90 million in funds appropriated by Congress to add additional beds in immigration detention facilities.By the July 2006, Chertoff told a House subcommittee that DHS had "achieved essentially 100 percent catch-and-remove.