Overview

• Tent facilities with capacities up to 5,000 beds are planned at Fort Bliss, Texas, alongside sites in Colorado, Indiana and New Jersey.
• The agency aims to raise maximum detention capacity from about 40,000 beds to 100,000 by the end of the year.
• The $45 billion appropriation is the largest infusion of resources ICE has received for expanding migrant detention in recent years.
• A policy shift directs new sites to be managed by state and local authorities rather than private prison companies.
• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is in talks with five Republican-led states to build new centers modeled on Florida’s state-run "Alligator Alcatraz" facility.