Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major U.S. cities

[NickB79]

Source: NBC

The incoming Trump administration is considering locations and talking to private prison companies about drastically expanding immigrant detention centers that would hold immigrants before they are deported as part of President-elect Donald Trump's promised mass deportation plan, two sources familiar with the planning told NBC News.

The goal is to double the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention beds — 41,000 are now allocated by Congress — to hold vast numbers of migrants for short periods of time while they await deportation after their arrests inside the U.S., the sources said.

The plan would also include restarting the policy of detaining parents with their children, known as family detention, which immigration advocates have criticized and the Biden administration stopped in 2021, the sources said.

So far, people working on the plans with the Trump transition team are assessing which of the facilities the Biden administration closed could be reopened, taking account of available space in county jails and assessing which areas might need temporary facilities to detain migrants as part of the deportation effort.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna179843

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They're going to do mass deportations, economic impacts be damned. Don't let people tell you otherwise.

[nature-lover]

1. Can countries refuse entry to deportees?

[msongs]

3. cant export people unless there is a place to send them nt

[Blue_Tires]

20. Nazi Germany originally planned to deport the Jewish folks

But when they learned there was nowhere to send them and their facilities and resources got overwhelmed, they came up with an 'alternative' solution

[erodriguez]

16. Indefinite detention for non l-citizens is legal in this country.

They'll lock em up and use them for slave labor.

[Miguelito Loveless]

18. A major win

for private prison companies. They will make money on both ends, being paid by the government to hold them, and by corporations for slave labor.

[ColinC]

2. Yep. That was a thing people voted for.

[Karasu]

4. This feels like it is in part an attempt to expand their overreach into blue states...

...considering that's where many of the "major cities" in question are located.

[3825-87867]

5. No country will take them back, BUT...

don't bet against tramp sending to his Master so they can be used as canon fodder against Ukraine!

[mopinko]

6. well, if he wants 1 outside of chgo, he's gonna have to put it in wis.

my gov aint gonna put up w that nonsense.

[Karasu]

10. Your governor is badass.

I've had the highest respect for him every since I saw him speak at the DNC.

[DBoon]

7. this place may still be available

[JoseBalow]

8. Sabotage is the cornerstone of any effective resistance

A lot of things can go wrong with a construction project

[Tarzanrock]

9. It's Herr Himmler-Miller Time!

Every fucking Mexican; Latino; Muslim; Asian and Black men who voted for the Turd or didn't vote for Harris-Walz is going to soon get what they enabled and/or aided and abetted. Herr Himmler-Miller is about to be let loose with directions to build his "detention" camps. You will hear the goosestepping soon enough, America.

[RussellCattle]

11. Remember when they found undocumented immigrants building Trumps wall? New job opprotunities building camps.

[moniss]

12. So now the camps and the push to be sure they stay full

so the private prison conglomerate keeps making the profits. How long before their Un-American Activities Committee has a list of "subversive" US citizens to help fill the camps and await their turn to be deported?

[BonnieJW]

15. I wonder

If diaper man will be getting some "gratitude " from those prisons?

[riversedge]

13. When the fruits and vegs need to be picked next summer and there is no one to pick them, then

prices will go up and up and up. We all suffer--except the well off.

[C Moon]

14. "Let them eat cake."

[Hotler]

17. They're using the word deportation until they take power. Then it will change to ethnic cleansing.

Don't forget, the orange convict's base demands cruelty.

[republianmushroom]

19. Going to be interesting.

Another myth shot down, "land of the free". It was just a myth after all.