ICE Has Considered Adding 20,000 Detention Center Beds in Secretive Expansion Across Texas, Reports Say
A group of buildings in El Paso, next to apartment complexes and a pediatrician’s office. A towering office building in the Woodlands, across from a preschool. A sprawling, vacant warehouse South of Dallas. Each could be transformed into mega detention centers or headquarters for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to an investigation by Wired.
The Department of Homeland Security has been covertly planning ICE expansions in dozens of states across the U.S., and Texas is their biggest target, according to federal documents obtained by Wired. At least eight Texas cities have been identified as places ICE is looking to expand by acquiring new offices or warehouses to use as detention centers, according to Wired and Bloomberg.
Reports on ICE expansions dropped amid increased calls to reign in the agency — and to shut down existing facilities.
Earlier this month, the DHS reported a measles outbreak at Dilley Immigration Processing Center near San Antonio — where hundreds of children are being detained.
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