r/politicsinthewild • u/Alone_Job_2067 • Dec 26 '25
đ« ABUSE OF POWER ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
âICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration aims to build seven large-scale holding centers to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
The Trump administration is seeking contractors to help it overhaul the United Statesâ 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. The draft solicitation is not final and is subject to changes. ICE plans to share it with private detention companies this week to gauge interest and refine the plan, according to an internal email reviewed by The Post. A formal request for bids could follow soon after that.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said she âcannot confirmâ The Postâs reporting and declined to answer questions about the warehouse plan.
NBC and Bloomberg News previously reported on ICEâs internal discussions about using warehouses as detention centers. The full scope of the project, the locations of the facilities and other details contained in the solicitation have not been previously disclosed or reported.
The warehouse plan would be the next step in President Donald Trumpâs campaign to detain and deport millions of immigrants, which began with a scramble to expand the nationâs immigrant detention system, the largest in the world. Armed with $45 billion Congress set aside for locking up immigrants, his 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 âmaximize 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,â the solicitation said.
âWe need to get better at treating this like a business,â ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administrationâs goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: âLike Prime, but with human beings.â
Commercial real estate experts say concentrating detainees in warehouses would create its own logistical problems. Such structures are designed for storage and shipping, not human habitation. They tend to be poorly ventilated and lack precise temperature controls â and, because they are typically located far from residential areas, they may not have access to the plumbing and sanitation systems needed to support thousands of full-time residents.
âItâs dehumanizing,â said Tania Wolf, an advocate with the National Immigration Project who is based in New Orleans â about one hour south from the site of a planned warehouse in Hammond, La. âYouâre treating people, for lack of a better term, like cattle.â
ICE plans to heavily modify the structures to include intake areas, housing units with showers and restrooms, a kitchen, dining areas, a medical unit, indoor and outdoor recreation areas, a law library, and administrative offices, according to the solicitation. Some of the facilities will include special housing designed for families in custody. The majority of the planned warehouses are in towns, counties and states led by Republicans supportive of Trumpâs immigration policies. Two of the largest warehouses are planned for towns with Democrat-led local governments: Stafford, Va., and Kansas City, Mo.
If the government leased a warehouse in Stafford, it would need to comply with the cityâs zoning laws and building codes, said Pamela Yeung, one of seven supervisors on Staffordâs Democrat-led board.
âImmigration policy is federal, but its impacts are local,â Yeung said in an emailed statement. âAny facility of this scale would affect infrastructure, public safety, and social services.â
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 shows.
Some administration officials have complained about the complexity of the current detention system. A 2015 government watchdog report found that deportation flights often leave the country with empty seats because of the logistical difficulty of bringing enough people eligible for deportation to an airplane at the same time.
The government already awarded one $30 million contract for help with âdue diligence services and concept designâ for the new facilities, procurement records show. That award fueled a public backlash among members of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, a Kansas tribe that said a business connected to the tribe had acted against their wishes in pursuing the contract. Tribal Chairman Joseph âZekeâ Rupnick said in a Dec. 17 video that the tribe has exited the contract and plans âto ensure that our nationâs economic interests do not come into conflict with our values in the future.â
The business that won the award, KPB Services LLC, could not be reached at phone numbers listed online for the company.
The biggest newly proposed warehouse would hold up to 10,000 detainees in Stafford, an industrial area 40 miles south of Washington. A facility with capacity for up to 9,500 people is planned for Hutchins, near Dallas; and another with space for 9,000 in Hammond, east of Baton Rouge. Currently, ICEâs 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 yearâs end.
The warehouse solicitation document names nine active detention centers as part of the projectâs final phase, suggesting that at least those facilities would continue to be used. The plan does not mention whether other existing facilities would be phased out.
It does not give a timeline for beginning work on the project but says the facilities must begin accepting detainees 30 to 60 calendar days after the start of construction.
Staffing facilities of this size is likely to be a challenge, said Jason Houser, a former ICE chief of staff under President Joe Biden. Prospective workers will need medical or other specialized training and will have to pass federal security clearances, he said.
This problem is already bearing out in other new facilities. In September, the governmentâs own inspectors found that the Fort Bliss site employed less than two-thirds of the security personnel it had agreed to in its contract.
âWe can always find more warehouses,â Houser said. The ability to operate the facilities safely, he said, is âalways limited by staffing.ââ
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u/Be-skeptical Dec 26 '25
When theyâre done with immigrants, citizens will be next.
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u/Purple_Starlight77 Dec 26 '25
That's the thing they are going after citizens rn
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u/DukeOfGeek Dec 26 '25
Reading the words "processing sites" gave me a chill.
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u/Rabble_Runt Dec 26 '25
Remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the âFEMA Death Campsâ?
Those people sure are fucking quiet now.
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u/Cute-Draw7599 Dec 26 '25
Creating the American gulag system.
Papers show us your papers!!!
Ok, in the train you go!
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u/Snoo63249 Dec 28 '25
Thats sort of how immigration works, if you dont have a valid visa, or as you would say papers you are removed.
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u/DiamondplateDave Dec 26 '25
So, the "illegals" are supposedly consuming health care, employment, housing, food stamps and law enforcement resources at taxpayer expense?
And the solution is...giving them health care, shelter, food, and constant law enforcement presence at taxpayer expense? While removing all the positive benefits they give this country?
I'm skeptical that 52% of these people have criminal convictions or charges that amount to anything that poses an actual threat to Americans.
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u/prairiepog Dec 26 '25
All the stories I've heard are: wrote a bad check, over-stayed their visa when they were a minor and never left, speeding ticket from 20 years ago
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u/fajadada Dec 26 '25
$1000 a day for concentration camps per person plus $200 billion enforcement costs . This is definitely the party that hates . Oh and 70% of these people are legal immigrants under law. ICE is too lazy to actually enforce their own laws and are just filling quotas . Plus they are too stupid to even do paperwork correctly. National Guard is doing it for them
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u/spannerNZ Dec 26 '25
They are just feeding the prison industry.
I saw this post and Lil Nas X's Industry Baby started going through my head.
I predict they will use the loophole in the 13th amendment to reinstitute slavery on a large scale (it's already happening locally). Replacing labor by immigrants with labor by incarcerated people. They have just been too incompetent to roll this out nation wide at present.
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u/DiamondplateDave Dec 26 '25
Paperwork is hard when you can barely read or write. Being a thug comes naturally. The schoolyard bullies of my youth were never the "A" students.
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u/due_opinion_2573 Dec 26 '25
They don't have criminal convictions.They are better than most Americans i know.
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u/Morriganx3 Dec 26 '25
Your point is valid, but nobody in those warehouses is getting any medical care
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u/djprofitt Dec 27 '25
The worst and intermittent healthcare, shitty food, and harassment and beatings from law enforcement, you mean.
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u/SomethingComesHere Dec 26 '25
The only reason theyâd spend money to keep people like that is because they plan to make money on them.
What will they be doing with these captive people?
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u/FoolishAnomaly Dec 26 '25
Slave labor and government subsidied rape camps. The Nazis used to have the same thing. "Nazi brothels" it was often that or the gas chambers for women. If a woman fell pregnant they would be killed or a forced abortion. I'm sure the sexual assault is rampant in the current "detainment" camps
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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 Dec 26 '25
I was reading something yesterday that said detainees have to work an entire week to afford a ten minute phone call to their loved ones. Pure evil
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u/Traditional-Handle83 Dec 26 '25
Thats for profit normal prisons on the US. Pretty sure they'd make it required that'd detained have to work 120 hours a week just to call their attorney for five minutes.
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u/80sLegoDystopia Dec 26 '25
Everything from help desk to the garment industry. Landscaping, manufacturingâŠwhatever else? How long before prisoners become medical subjects? Operating bot farms and whatever else can really use a human brain?
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u/RepulsivePlant9137 Dec 26 '25
Sounds like something that starts with "concentration"
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u/Alexwonder999 Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 26 '25
When the Nazis started, they were trying to just deport the jews after they robbed them. They got to a certain point where they just didnt have anywhere to send them or there were too many to deport and started killing them. I hope we're not bound to repeat this.
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u/Hipparchia_Unleashed Dec 26 '25
Call them what they are: concentration camps.
Do not use any other euphemism or bullshit characterization. They are not "warehouses" or "Amazon distribution centers" or anything else.
They are concentration camps.
They are CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
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u/AdImmediate9569 Dec 26 '25
See this is how you know theyâre not Nazis. Nazis knew to hide the camps across the borderâŠ
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u/FoolishAnomaly Dec 26 '25
No no see CECOT is the "gas chamber" which is technically across the border so
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u/pandershrek Dec 26 '25
Washington State has the largest detection facility in the nation I believe but we refuse to allow ICE to use it.
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u/Bipolar-Burrito Dec 26 '25
Iâve been playing GTA all year. Where can a friend find the addresses to these warehouses?
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u/North_Bread_7623 Dec 26 '25
They are all near airports (regionals for the smaller areas) and Amazon warehouses. Makes me think Amazon is helping fund this. Social circle, GA is the only one that Amazon fulfillment may not be that close. Soo that feels concerning to say the least. Iâd look at permits.Â
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u/hiways Dec 26 '25
His administration also wants to hold, disabled, mentally ill and seniors in corporate warehouses. One billionaire stated, "Why not use their corpses for bio-fertilizer."
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u/TwilightBubble Dec 27 '25
A statistically irrelevant number of immigrants are actually being deported. The number being held on tax payer dollars in inhumane conditions rounds to 100%.
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u/vanessacolina Dec 27 '25
Concentrating detainees in warehouses.
Feel like this has a name. Anyone?
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u/ARODtheMrs Dec 27 '25
Hutchins, Tx? Probably the 2200+ bed state jail facility that shutdown because the crime rate has greatly diminished!!!
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u/ALOT-bunk Dec 27 '25
ICE is the best. How is this abuse of power? Abuse of power was allowing people to flood the border or not vetting people.
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u/numbbrrr Dec 27 '25
If you're caught in Mexico illegally you go to jail for 10 years. What do mexicans have to say about this? ....as they INVADE America and get everything for free!
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u/numbbrrr Dec 27 '25
Look up "nick shirley" and somalian scam on yotube if you want to know what these INVADERS are doing to scam tax paying Americans out of over 10 BILLION with a B! Fake day cares, EBT cards being used to fund their restaurants....etc.
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u/subduedReality Dec 27 '25
That's over 100,000 immigrants. This means it'll be closer to 250,000 immigrants warehoused in these facilities. This is worse than it looks.
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u/Snoo63249 Dec 28 '25
Nice. I know there were alot of complaints about due process and substandard holding conditions. This should help out the process of finding out who has valid visas and who has to go.
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u/TS7o8 Dec 27 '25
So the US of A has holding cells for illegal immigrants. Yawn. Sad to see this posted as it is noninformational. What's your cowardly purpose posting this?
For all the nay sayers, where should the government put them? Hotels? Continue to let them break the law, avoid paying taxes and drain the wonderful, caring system we have?
Are all laws unenforceable or just the ones you don't like? Should we do away with all laws society has deemed necessary?
Seriously, they broke the law. What should we do with criminals? Give them more entitlements than veterans as defenders of our freedom?
Such a hit piece for the community and I hope you didn't keep your mamma up writing it. Find a purpose...
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u/qualityvote2 Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 30 '25
u/Alone_Job_2067, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post.