Trump Admin Plans to Spend $38 Billion to Convert Warehouses Into ICE Detention Centers

The Trump administration plans to spend more than $38 billion to buy and convert warehouses into detention centers for illegal aliens, according to documents provided to New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte and published on the state’s website on Feb. 12. One document reveals that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under its Detention Reengineering Initiative (DRI), plans to acquire and renovate eight large-scale detention centers, 16 processing sites, and 10 existing “turnkey” facilities where ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) already operate. The initiative seeks to create a new detention facility model and retrofit the buildings into processing and detention facilities “exclusively for ICE” to hold tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and activate all of them by Nov. 30....