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US races to build migrant tent camps after $45 billion funding boost, WSJ reports
UNITED STATES, JUL 19 – ICE plans to increase migrant detention beds from 40,000 to 100,000 nationwide by year-end following a $45 billion funding boost, prioritizing large tent camps at military bases and jails.
- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expanding migrant tent camps with $45 billion in funding, aiming to increase capacity from 40,000 to 100,000 beds by year-end, according to The Wall Street Journal.
- ICE is focusing on setting up tent facilities at military bases, including a 5,000-bed site at Fort Bliss in Texas and additional locations in Colorado, Indiana, and New Jersey, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
- US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned talks with five Republican-led states to establish new detention sites, inspired by the 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility in Florida, as she said in a press conference.
- ICE has not confirmed the specifics of its plan to increase detention capacity but stated it is exploring all available options, according to a senior official quoted by Reuters.
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The United States is going to spend $45 billion over the next four years to increase its capacity to imprison migrants. The goal of this unprecedented budget for the central gear in Donald Trump’s deportation machine is that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) more than double the beds it has available to detainees. It is estimated that 90% of that prison population, currently brushing at 60,000, is in cells run by a handful of…
WASHINGTON. SEK 270 billion per year. That's how much the American immigration agency ICE gets in Trump's "big, fantastic" budget. That's almost three times more than the appropriations for the FBI. When the money is converted into resources, it can have violent consequences.
Washington. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) accelerated the construction of camps to recruit migrants across the country, after receiving $45 billion from the federal budget, with the aim of expanding its detention capacity from 40,000 to 100,000 people by the end of the year, revealed The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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