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Brett Wilkins
April 11, 2025
Common Dreams
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_ 'Dystopian' Trump Plan for Massive Expansion of ICE Detention
Centers Exposed _

This February 7, 2025 photo shows the entrance to the CoreCivic Otay
Mesa Detention Center in San Diego., Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty
Images)

 

The ACLU on Friday revealed new details about the Trump
administration's plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement
detention centers in 10 states across the nation, with private prison
corporations—whose share prices soared after the election of
President Donald Trump—seeking to run at least a half dozen proposed
ICE facilities.

The documents, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request,
"signal a massive expansion of ICE detention capacity—including at
facilities notorious for misconduct and abuse—which echo reports
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earlier this week that the Trump administration has sought proposals
for up to $45 billion to expand immigrant detention," ACLU said
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"The discovery also comes on the heels of a 'strategic sourcing
vehicle
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released by ICE earlier this month, which called for government
contractors to submit proposals for immigration detention and related
services," the group added.

The more than 250 pages of documents
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obtained by the ACLU "include information regarding facility capacity,
history of facility use, available local transport, proximity to local
hospitals, immigration courts, and transport, as well as access to
local consulates and pro bono legal services."

"Specifically, the documents reveal that Geo Group, Inc. (GEO) and
CoreCivic submitted proposals for a variety of facilities not
currently in use by ICE," ACLU said.

These include:

* McFarland Detention Center in McFarland, California;
* California City Correctional Center in California City,
California;
* North Lake Correctional Center in Baldwin, Michigan;
* Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kansas;
* Lea County Detention Center in Hobbs, New Mexico; and
* South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

GEO, CoreCivic, and Management Training Corporation (MTC) "also sought
to renew contracts at current ICE detention facilities" in California,
Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington, according to the files.

"The documents received provide important details regarding what we
have long feared—a massive expansion of ICE detention facilities
nationwide in an effort to further the Trump administration's
dystopian plans to deport our immigrant neighbors and loved ones,"
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Eunice Cho, senior staff attorney at the ACLU's National Prison
Project.

"This expansion is a disastrous waste of billions of taxpayer dollars
that will only line the coffers of the private prison industry," Cho
added.

Indeed, GEO shares have nearly doubled in value since Trump's
election, while CoreCivic stock is up 57% over the same period.

Unlike state prisons or country and local jails, which are accountable
to oversight agencies, privately operated ICE detention centers are
not subject to state regulation or inspection. And although Department
of Homeland Security detainees are not convicted criminals and ICE
detention centers are not technically prisons, the facilities are
plagued by a history of abuse, often sexual
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in nature, and sometimes deadly.

During Trump's first term, groups including the ACLU sounded the alarm
on the record number
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detainee deaths in ICE custody, and scandals—including the
separation
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children from their parents or guardians and forced sterilization
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of numerous women at an ICE facility in Georgia—sparked widespread
outrage and calls for reform from immigrant rights defenders.

However, abuses continued into the administration of former President
Joe Biden, including "medical neglect
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preventable deaths
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punitive use of solitary confinement
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lack of due process
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obstructed access to legal counsel
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and discriminatory
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and racist treatment
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according to a 2024 report published
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by the National Immigrant Justice Center. Biden also broke
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promise to stop holding federal prisoners and immigration detainees in
private prisons.

Since Trump took office in January after being elected on a promise to
carry out the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history, fresh
reports of ICE detainee abuse and poor detention conditions have been
reported. These include alleged
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denial of medical care, insufficient access to feminine hygiene
products, and rotten food at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center
in Basile, Louisiana, where Tufts University Ph.D. student and
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is being held without charge.

Common Dreams is playing a vital role by reporting day and night on
this orgy of corruption and greed, as well as what everyday people can
do to organize and fight back. As a people-powered nonprofit news
outlet, we cover issues the corporate media never will, but we can
only continue with our readers’ support.

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