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For readers who don’t have a Washington Post subscription, below are excerpts from a Post article today about how the administration plans to hold 80,0000 immigrants pending deportation.
“The Trump administration is seeking contractors to help it overhaul the United States’ immigrant detention system in a plan that includes renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time, according to a draft solicitation reviewed by The Washington Post.
“Rather than shuttling detainees around the country to wherever detention space is available, as happens now, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aims to speed up deportations by establishing a deliberate feeder system, the document says. Newly arrested detainees would be booked into processing sites for a few weeks before being funneled into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation.
“The large warehouses would be located close to major logistics hubs in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. Sixteen smaller warehouses would hold up to 1,500 people each.”
Author’s Note: Two of the seven new facilities are scheduled to be sited in Texas.
“…Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said she ‘cannot confirm’ The Post’s reporting and declined to answer questions about the warehouse plan.
“…Armed with $45 billion Congress set aside for locking up immigrants, his (Trump’s) administration this year revived dormant prisons, repurposed sections of military bases and partnered with Republican governors to build immigrant tent encampments in remote regions.
“…The administration has deported more than 579,000 people this year, border czar Tom Homan said earlier this month on the social media platform X.
“The new facilities will ‘maximize efficiency, minimize costs, shorten processing times, limit lengths of stay, accelerate the removal process and promote the safety, dignity and respect for all in ICE custody,’ the solicitation said.
“…ICE held more than 68,000 people at the beginning of this month, agency data shows, the highest number on record. Nearly half, or 48 percent of these people, have no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, ICE data show.
“Currently, ICE’s biggest facility is a makeshift tent encampment built this summer at the Fort Bliss U.S. Army base in Texas. It now holds around 3,000 people but was expected to have a capacity of 5,000 by year’s end.”
The Washington Post, December 24, 2025, “ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses” by staff reporters Douglas MacMillan and Jonathan O’Connell
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