Warehouses are for storing goods. ICE wants to use them to store people.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramps up arrests, the Trump administration is seeking to spend $38 billion to expand its detention capacity to 92,600 people, according to agency documents.

At least 73,000 people — a record high — are already being held in ICE detention. To make room for more, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to buy numerous industrial warehouses using tens of billions in funding from the “Big Beautiful Bill.”

ICE has already purchased at least eight facilities in Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maryland, New Jersey, and Arizona — and is looking at as many as 24 warehouses across the nation.

To fill them, the administration would have to expand arrests dramatically beyond what it’s already doing. More federal agents would be dispatched to terrorize communities, shoot people dead in the streets, and break families apart.

Almost certainly, more people would die in detention too.

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