Overview

• The internal ICE planning document, last updated July 30, directs opening or expanding 125 detention sites to reach more than 107,000 beds by January.
• ICE will repurpose sections of military bases, revive shuttered prisons and deploy soft-sided structures under contracts with private and local partners.
• The agency’s roadmap calls for a significant build-out of family detention units that could form the largest such program in decades.
• Civil-rights organizations and states have already filed lawsuits contesting the expansion’s legality, conditions and impact on immigrant families.
• Critics highlight logistical challenges in transportation, oversight and sustained funding as the government races to double detention capacity.