State-run detention sites give ICE space for mass deportation agenda

First-of-their-kind detention sites in red states across the country are giving the Trump administration the bed space needed to carry out a dramatic expansion of its immigration enforcement agenda.

Due to a shortage of federally contracted detention space, the Department of Homeland Security has brokered deals to build new and sometimes make-shift facilities that allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest thousands of additional illegal border crossers.