ICE reveals $38B plan for immigrant mega-jails (concentration camps)

JD_co

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/ice-immigrant-detention-warehouses-spending

ICE is preparing to spend $38 billion this year on a "new detention center model" that will hold nearly 100,000 people.

Why it matters: Expanding immigration detention is a major part of the deportation pipeline and will fuel President Trump's pledge to deport millions of people. But the plans are facing local pushback.

Driving the news: ICE is going on a buying spree for warehouse spaces, estimated to cost $38.3 billion out of the $45 billion from the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" passed last year.

A new ICE memo, shared with the New Hampshire Governor's Office on Thursday, states that it plans to buy "non-traditional facilities built specifically to support ICE's needs." ICE plans to buy eight "mega centers," 16 processing centers and 10 more facilities that ICE's enforcement division already uses.

The memo was released hours after a Senate hearing where Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) questioned the acting ICE director about his plans to expand immigration detention in her home state. The Washington Post first reported on the memo.

By the numbers: Across all the new buildings, DHS plans to have capacity for 92,600 people, according to the memo.

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Mark

SO we've got $38-45 billion to confine, abuse and mistreat human beings but nothing to provide healthcare, food, essential services to take care of our citizens or refugees from other countries. At present we have become a shit-hole country except in areas where ordinary human beings step up.