Greg Abbott offers Trump 4,000 prison beds to detain immigrants amid ICE shortages

Published February 6, 2025 11:58am ET



Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) offered the Trump administration access to 4,000 vacant prison beds across Texas for the federal government’s detention of illegal immigrants in custody.

Abbott’s pitch during a White House appearance Wednesday and again on cable news that night comes as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have had to release 461 illegal immigrants into the United States due to a shortfall in ICE detention space.

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