“In more than $ 45 billion”Big, beautiful bill“That President Trump Signed on Friday Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is placed for the place of prevention, which officials say that will add thousands of beds for migrants held in federal custody.
An estimated $ 170 billion bills have been nominated for immigration enforcement as Trump Administration Promised to orchestrate the largest Large -scale exile effort In American history. But the funding that is dedicated to the place of snow Last bill. House passed On Thursday, Obama, Biden and the first Trump administration are more than the government spent on the housing migrants, jointly, Washington Post reported.
Federal officials estimate that $ 45 billion will provide an additional 100,000 beds in ice facilities at a time when snow has about 56,400 migrants in its detention centers in the middle of June, Lan -Deen Records Access ClearinghouseThe number of detainees increased by more than 5,000 during the first two weeks of June.
Data has shown that it has been detained, 28 percent is a pre -criminal punishmentWhile criminal allegations are pending in 25 percent.
Funding collision was approved in the bill after Trump and Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Christie NoM Visited a new detention facility Officials of that administration have said “Elegator Alkatraz“White House Border Caesar Tom Homan Told “Cuomo” of Newsnation this week The facility in Florida Everglades will cost an estimated $ 450 million to operate each year.
But officials said that this facility may be a blueprint for more snow detention centers that the government has now planned to open that funds have been approved.
President Donald Trump, village. Ron Desantis, R-Fla., Homeland Security Secretary Christie Nom and others, visit “Elegator Alkatraz,”, “a new migrant detention facility in dead-callier training and transition facility, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopi, FLA (AP Photo/Ivan Wukki).
“Everyone arrests everyone, we need a bed, as they are going to detain for several days on the basis of the case,” Homan said. “So, it will give us a little breathing room, will give us an additional bed so that we can target more criminals across the country.”
Seema Caesar had earlier called Congress Provide more money For custody that will allow ice to be detained by migrants taken into federal custody. In June, the agency published a list of more than 40 contractors, which can assist with the “emergency acquisition” of space for migrant prisoners, the post reported.
In addition to $ $ 45 billion for snow prevention and agents, this week allocates another $ 46 billion to continue the funding bill approved by the Congress this week Border wall construction With the US-Maxico border.
Where will additional ice detention centers be located?
Real clear politics reported This week that $ 45 billion that will be dedicated to ice represents a 265 percent increase in its current detention budget, which will be higher than in the US gel system.
The current load of prisoners is the highest because the data has been compiled by ICE since the first time in Trump’s office. In addition to providing more beds, DHS Assistant Secretary Trisia McLaglin said in an email statement to the post that the bill would allow the funding agency for snow to rent an additional 10,000 federal agents.
Officials announced earlier this year that the agency’s migrant detention center Was at capacityThe government contracts with government jail companies to get custody facilities. Two main companies, Corecivic and GEO Group, have been awarded nine contracts by Ice for extended detention according to the post.
The report states that companies have also been given contracts to produce temporary tent structures, which will be used for home migrants. Last year, American civil liberties union (ACLU) It was determined through the request of an Freedom Information Act that private companies wanted to enter government contracts in states such as Michigan, California, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Washington states.
The post’s report indicated that the choresivic and the Jio groups already are owned by the jails that are vacant in many states, including Canusus (Levenworth), Colorado, Minnesota, Northern Carolina and Oklahoma.
ACLU also reported In 2022, the GEO group earned a revenue of $ 1.05 billion from snow contracts alone, while Chorexy earned $ 552.2 million during the same year.
“Never in the history of our 42 -year -old company, we never have so much activity and demand for our services, as we are now seeing,” CEO Damon Hinninger, CEO of Chorex, said with shareholders during an earning call in May, ” According to Associated Press,
The expansion of detention space comes at a time when More than a dozen people are killed in snow faceEsseus Since October, including 10 during 2025. In 2024, A ACLU Report Indicated that 95 percent of deaths in snow facilities between 2017 and 2021 could be prevented or possibly prevented.
The investigation, which was conducted for human rights by ACLU, American oversight and physicians, analyzed the deaths of 52 people killed in snow custody during the time frame.
