Incoming Trump "border czar" Tom Homan has vowed to deport illegal migrants. (Fox News)
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Although ICE owns five detention facilities of its own, the ACLU says ICE relies on other entities such as non-profits and inter-governmental agreements with private prison companies to hold the majority of people in its custody.
In the ACLU FOIA lawsuit filed in September, the ACLU sued ICE for information on a possible expansion of migrant detention facilities around the country.
According to Border Report, citing documents received by the ACLU, facilities in six states responded to the ICE request, including facilities in and around Harlingen and El Paso, Texas, as well as in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Nevada and Salt Lake City, Utah.
The facilities that are being considered in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley include the Willacy County Jail in Raymondville, which is run by the GEO Group; the Brooks County Detention Facility in Falfurrias; the Coastal Bend Detention Center in Robstown; and the East Hidalgo Detention Center in La Villa.
Migrants at an ICE detention center at the Shreveport Regional Airport (SHV) in Shreveport, Louisiana, on Aug. 14, 2024. (Wayan Barre/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The exact details of President-elect Trump’s deportation plan aren’t exactly clear, although both he and incoming "Border Czar" Tom Homan have said that criminal migrants will be targeted first. Trump has also appointed hardliner South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to serve as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Homan, meanwhile, has said that family detention centers for migrants are also "on the table."
Family detention ended in 2021, soon after President Biden took office, and that included closing three ICE facilities with about 3,000 beds, according to Fox 5 DC.
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