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Nearly $40 billion dollars will be spent converting warehouses across the US into detention centers for illegal aliens.
Documents published by New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte on Thursday show the Trump administration has plans to purchase and renovate dozens of facilities as part of its flagship mass-deportation agenda.
One document reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as part of its Detention Reengineering Initiative (DRI), aims to buy and covert eight detention centers, 16 processing sites and 10 “turnkey” facilities where ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) are already operating.
The Epoch Times reports, “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.”
The detention centers will be designed to hold between 7,000 and 100,00 detainees at any single time for a period of up to 60 days, and will be used as “primary locations” for international removals.
The 16 processing sites will hold between 1,000 and 1,500 detainees for between three and seven days and serve as staging posts for transfer to detention centers or immediate removal.
“For ICE to sustain the anticipated increase in enforcement operations and arrests in 2026, an increase in detention capacity will be a necessary downstream requirement,” the document states.
“The new model is designed to strategically increase bed capacity to 92,600 beds.”
The document also notes that ICE has hired more than 12,000 new law enforcement officers.
“These facilities will ensure the safe and humane civil detention of aliens in ICE custody, while helping ICE effectuate mass deportations,” the document continues.
“This model will incorporate all existing detention standards and will maximize operational efficiency, minimize costs, shorten processing times, and promote the safety, dignity, and respect of all aliens in ICE custody.”
These acquisitions are expected to create significant numbers of jobs in local communities.
For example, a processing facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire will support 1,252 jobs during its construction and 265 jobs for each year it operates.
