The 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.
The facilities include five run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, four operated by private contractors including CoreCivic Inc. and GEO Group Inc., and two sites at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Together, they held an estimated 5,600 people per day between May 27 and June 9, based on a tally of average daily population data.
The administration is expanding capacity as it moves to carry out more than 1 million arrests a year — which hinges on having enough space to hold people until they can be deported. The deals with additional detention centers helped enable US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold more than 59,000 people as of late June, even though Congress had funded roughly 41,500 detention beds.
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