"The Department of Homeland Security is planning to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into immigrant detention centers, according to documents shared late Thursday by New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte. Ayotte said in a statement that she received the documents in response to an inquiry about the economic impact on the town of Merrimack, where $158 million will be spent to retrofit a warehouse into a holding facility."
"According to an overview of the plan, first reported by the Washington Post, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to purchase and convert 16 buildings into processing centers. Those facilities would hold between 1,000 and 1,500 detainees for up to a week. An additional eight large-scale detention centers will be used as base camps for deportations and will reportedly hold as many as 10,000 migrants for up to 60 days. The new model is designed to strategically increase bed capacity to 92,600 beds, the documents read."
The Department of Homeland Security plans a $38.3 billion program to convert warehouses into immigrant detention and processing centers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intends to purchase and retrofit 16 buildings as processing centers holding 1,000–1,500 people for up to a week and to use eight large-scale centers as deportation base camps holding up to 10,000 migrants for as long as 60 days. The model aims to increase overall bed capacity to 92,600 to support heightened enforcement operations in 2026. Funding appears likely via federal legislation, and the goal is operational status by the end of November.
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