Roughly two-thirds of the warehouses Immigration and Customs Enforcement purchased across 11 cities under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are in the process of being sold or off-loaded.

The Trump administration is backtracking on its initial plan to significantly expand immigrant detention space nationwide after spending $1 billion acquiring large warehouses that were supposed to be converted into temporary holding sites for illegal immigrants in deportation proceedings. The warehouses were supposed to be in addition to about three dozen existing ICE detention sites.