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ICE to spend $38bn turning warehouses into detention centers, documents show

February 13, 2026 Guardian US

US homeland security eyeing 24 buildings, some as 'primary locations' for deportations, in escalation of Trump agenda. USCIS expects to spend an estimated $38.3bn on a plan to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into new immigration detention centers with capacity for tens of thousands of detainees.

Source: Guardian US