Grassroots pushback swells as ICE expands detention network
TL;DR
ICE is rapidly expanding detention capacity with billions in funding and a hub-and-spoke plan that could reach up to 100,000 beds, spurring broad local opposition over costs, infrastructure, and ethics, while some communities anticipate economic benefits and private operators like GEO Group and CoreCivic profit from the contracts.
- Mapping ICE's expanding footprint, and the communities fighting back NPR
- Kristi Noem Bought 11 Warehouses to Use as ICE Jails. Now What? The Atlantic
- Trump admin bypasses public scrutiny for ICE contracts Spotlight PA
- ‘There has been no process’: Across the country, DHS discretely purchased warehouses with no local input Pottsville Republican Herald
- ICE warehouse tracker: See where 'mega' detention centers are planned USA Today
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