Deportation Inc.
Trump Administration Adds 60 Facilities for Detained Migrants
The expansion has added thousands of beds to ICE capacity, as the department prepares for an influx of cash from Congress
ICE agents monitor a protest outside Delaney Hall, a converted immigrant detention center in New Jersey on May 7.
Photo illustration by 731. Photograph: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration is stitching together a wider network of immigrant-detention sites, expanding capacity by thousands of beds through agreements with local jails and private contractors across the country.
About 60 additional local, state and federal jails and prisons have begun holding newly arrested migrants facing deportation since Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, according to government figures analyzed by Bloomberg.