Leaked ICE document reveals  'breakneck expansion' plan for immigrant camps

According to documents obtained by the Washington Post, Donald Trump’s administration has plans in hand to spend billions on multiple new internment camps that will be capable of holding more than 100,000 immigrants.

Those new Department of Homeland Security facilities will also include ones at which ICE will detain entire families until they can be shipped out of the U.S.

According to the Post, concentration camps currently in use can accommodate more than 50,00O detainees and DHS plans on “opening or expanding 125 facilities this year. By January, ICE will have the capacity to hold more than 107,000 people, internal agency documents show.”

The Post reported, “The road map, last updated July 30, shows that ICE intends to expand immigrant detention to new parts of the country, nearly doubling its number of large-scale, mega-detention centers and relying increasingly on makeshift ‘soft-sided’ structures that can be built in a few weeks and taken down just as easily. The government is also planning to dramatically expand its capacity for detaining parents and children in what could amount to the nation’s largest family detention program in decades.”

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Responding to questions from the Post, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed via email that “the planning document was created by ICE but said the list was outdated and had not been approved. She said the listed contracts ‘are not accurate’ but declined to elaborate.”

The documents reveal that Texas will be the biggest recipient of contracts for new facilities, with the top four, in terms of capacity, capable of holding a combined 12,000 detainees.

The WaPo report added, “Geo Group, ICE’s largest contractor and a company with close ties to the Trump administration, is in line to receive at least nine new or modified detention contracts with a total estimated value of over $500 million a year, the documents show. When combined with four new contracts that ICE had already awarded Geo this year, the company is on track to double its total annual revenue from ICE detention.”

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