Newly Flush With Cash, ICE Races to Build Migrant Tent Camps [View all]

Source: The Wall Street Journal.

EXCLUSIVE - POLICY
Newly Flush With Cash, ICE Races to Build Migrant Tent Camps

GOP megabill allocates $45 billion for detention, giving administration hope it can speed up deportation efforts

By Michelle Hackman and Elizabeth Findell
July 19, 2025 at 8:00 am ET

WASHINGTON--With an overnight tripling of its annual budget and intensifying pressure to increase deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racing to expand its detention space with temporary tentlike structures, despite safety warnings.

Trump administration officials have identified limited detention space as one of the major chokepoints preventing them from stepping up deportations as quickly as President Trump has promised. They hope a new $45 billion for detention through the end of his term will help them get to 100,000 beds by the end of the year, up from roughly 40,000 from when Trump took office. ICE’s plan was laid out in several internal documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and described by administration officials familiar with the effort.

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