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

Published September 7, 2025 6:00am ET



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.

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