President Joe Biden’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting chief defended asking Congress to fund more bed space for detaining illegal aliens despite the high number of such units that aren’t being utilized, during a press conference Thursday. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked the Senate Appropriation Committee on Nov. 8 to increase the number of detention beds to 46,500 when appropriating funding for ICE after the agency closed several detention facilities and let thousands of detention beds go unused. Biden’s acting ICE chief Patrick J. Lech…