ICE targets Plan B after backlash to mega-jails plan
Summary
ICE is planning to buy immigration detention facilities from companies instead of renovating warehouses after local protests stopped those warehouse projects. The agency wants to own larger facilities to hold more detainees in fewer locations across the country.Key Facts
- ICE aims to own detention centers rather than lease beds as it did before.
- CoreCivic and GeoGroup, two major vendors, are in talks to sell some "turnkey" detention facilities to ICE.
- Turnkey facilities are ready-to-use properties that ICE can quickly operate.
- ICE previously planned to use 11 large warehouses for detention, but local opposition and lawsuits have stopped those plans.
- The warehouse projects in Maryland and Arizona faced legal and environmental challenges, halting their renovations.
- ICE currently operates about 200 detention sites and partners with local jails.
- The goal from the Trump administration is to have capacity for 100,000 detainees nationwide.
- Discussions about selling some purchased warehouses are ongoing as ICE reassesses its plan.
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