ICE begins buying ‘mega’ warehouse detention centers across US | Currently, there are more than 73,000 people in ICE custody, a record. The new sites could give the agency an additional 76,500 beds
ICE begins buying ‘mega’ warehouse detention centers across US | Currently, there are more than 73,000 people in ICE custody, a record. The new sites could give the agency an additional 76,500 beds
The DHS has repeatedly struggled with detention capacity as the primary bottleneck in its mass deportation campaign. Immigrant detention is already at a record high of 73k, an 84% increase from January 2025. They’ve also publicly said that **in order to meet their target of a million deportations a year, they need 100k beds**.
# Summary
The DHS has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars buying warehouses, mostly originally intended for e-commerce, with the intent to convert them into immigrant detention facilities. They’re looking at 23 sites which altogether will more than **double detention capacity to 150k.**
This month, DHS has given tours of potential sites in more than 20 cities to contractors and shared layout designs with them for at least 15 of the sites. Contractors began sending in proposals for turning the warehouses into jails this week.
# My thoughts
* I think this is more evidence for Dara Lind’s theory that their plan for mass deportation involves detaining immigrants in terrible conditions until they agree to self-deport.
* I can’t help but notice that 150k is greater than 100k so either they’ve updated their initial projections of how many beds they need to deport a million immigrants per year, they’re now intending on deporting more than a million immigrants per year, or they’re not just intending to detain immigrants.
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# Context
The DHS has repeatedly struggled with detention capacity as the primary bottleneck in its mass deportation campaign. Immigrant detention is already at a record high of 73k, an 84% increase from January 2025. They’ve also publicly said that **in order to meet their target of a million deportations a year, they need 100k beds**.
# Summary
The DHS has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars buying warehouses, mostly originally intended for e-commerce, with the intent to convert them into immigrant detention facilities. They’re looking at 23 sites which altogether will more than **double detention capacity to 150k.**
This month, DHS has given tours of potential sites in more than 20 cities to contractors and shared layout designs with them for at least 15 of the sites. Contractors began sending in proposals for turning the warehouses into jails this week.
# My thoughts
* I think this is more evidence for Dara Lind’s theory that their plan for mass deportation involves detaining immigrants in terrible conditions until they agree to self-deport.
* I can’t help but notice that 150k is greater than 100k so either they’ve updated their initial projections of how many beds they need to deport a million immigrants per year, they’re now intending on deporting more than a million immigrants per year, or they’re not just intending to detain immigrants.
# The sites
https://preview.redd.it/v9oqkpaibjgg1.png?width=582&format=png&auto=webp&s=3430212a5dbf176ed2aa3ec56fa1aa523250a97b
!ping snek&immigration
They are just itching to put Democrats in these shiny concentration camps.
https://preview.redd.it/ef14ur24djgg1.png?width=939&format=png&auto=webp&s=7b28829d0760f9a61e170e0532968c7c75ea8ba6
Richmond VA and others heard about one in hanover that was supposed to be sold to the government, however public pressure was able to get them to stop