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Original Date Announced
January 20, 2025Section 10 of Executive Order (EO) 14159, "Protecting the American People Against Invasion," directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate action and allocate all legally available resources or establish contracts to construct, operate, control, or use facilities to detain removable noncitizens.
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Subsequent Trump and Court Action
February 26, 20252025.02.26 ICE Reopens Delaney Hall Facility in Newark, NJ
ICE and GEO Group announced the reopening of the Delaney Hall Facility in Newark, NJ, after reaching an agreement to reestablish the federal immigration processing and detention center at the 1,000-bed facility. This detention center is the first to open under the second Trump administration.
Acting Director Caleb Vitello said in a statement that "[t]he location near an international airport streamlines logistics, and helps facilitate the timely processing of individuals in our custody as we pursue President Trump’s mandate to arrest, detain and remove illegal aliens from our communities."
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February 27, 20252025.02.27 Reported: ICE awards $1B contract to private prison firm for major immigrant detention center - Newsroom
Newsroom reports that ICE awarded a private-prison company a 15-year contract worth $1 billion to detain up to 1,000 immigrants in New Jersey. Executives for one of the largest private-prison companies, GEO Group Inc., told investors in an earnings call that they expect “unprecedented opportunities” under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown by providing detention-bed capacity and increasing electronic-monitoring services of immigrants.
Newsroom further reports that "[t]he Newark detention center, Delaney Hall, will be the largest ICE processing facility and detention center on the East Coast....GEO has pushed for a contract with ICE to reopen that facility as a detention center and even sued New Jersey over its state law that bars private and public companies from contracting with ICE to detain immigrants."
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February 27, 20252025.02.27 ICE modifies contract with CoreCivic to increase detention capacity
CoreCivic, a private-prison company, announced it made contract modifications with ICE to increase immigration-detention capacity. The modifications allow for an additional 784 immigrants to be detained at facilities in OH, NV, and OK, and allow ICE to use 252 beds for immigration detention at a correctional facility in MS.
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April 1, 20252025.04.01 ICE 70CDCR25R00000005 - Emergency Detention and Related Serv Strategic Sourcing Vehicle
ICE has issued a request for proposals (RFP) allowing private parties to submit bids for supplying "detention related services, including, but not limited to, physical detention facility, physical plant, transportation services, medical services, case processing and management services, and requisite staffing to provide comprehensive detention services in a manner that provides for the health, safety, and security of aliens in ICE custody." Prospective offerers "need not have the capability to provide each and every service detailed under the objectives" and can submit a bid to provide services covering only "the expert services they provide."
The RFP was issued as an "emergency acquisition," which allows the government to pursue a streamlined procurement process. The total combined or shared ceiling for all awards to be issued under the RFP is $45 billion; contracts awarded are anticipated to have a two-year period of performance.
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April 2, 20252025.04.02 ICE - ICE expands detention capacity with Glades County Jail in Florida
ICE announced that it reinstated the intergovernmental service agreement with the Glades County Board of County Commissioners to house ICE detainees at the Glades County Jail in Moore Haven, Florida. This agreement reestablishes the federal immigration processing and detention center and adds up to 500 beds. ICE had reduced its use of the facility and in 2022 announced that future use would depend on whether substandard conditions had been fully addressed.
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June 16, 20252025.06.16 Reported: ICE is using no-bid contract, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds - ABC
ABC News reports that "[t]o get more detention beds, the Trump administration has modified dozens of existing agreements with contractors and used no-bid contracts," including a deal with the private prison company CoreCivic to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, and a modified contract with Geo Group for an existing detention center in southeastern Georgia "so that the company could reopen an idle prison on adjacent land to hold 1,868 migrants, as well as "nine five-year contracts for a combined 10,312 beds." The agreements have not been released, as "ICE used what are known as letter contracts . . . normally reserved for minor matters."
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September 4, 20252025.09.04 Reported: California’s Newest Immigration Facility Is Also Its Biggest. Is It Operating Legally? - KQED
KQED reported that a new immigration-detention facility has opened in California City, California, operated by CoreCivic, a private prison company. The facility would "significantly increase ICE’s ability to hold immigrants for deportation in the state." CoreCivic stated that it had begun receiving detainees from ICE, though advocates "claim CoreCivic is operating without proper permits and in defiance of a state law that requires 180 days’ public notice and two public meetings before a local government can issue a permit allowing a private company to run an immigration jail." The facility was previously a state prison.
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September 23, 20252025.09.23 Complaint - ACLU of Colorado v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The ACLU of Colorado filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the District of Colorado against ICE seeking records on plans for expanding immigration detention in Colorado and Wyoming, including at the vacant private Hudson Correctional Facility. This suit comes after ICE allegedly failed to comply with the ACLU's FOIA request for such documents. American Civil Liberties Union Found. of Col. v. U.S. ICE, 1:25-cv-02983 (D. Colo.).
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October 1, 20252025.10.01 CoreCivic - CoreCivic Announces New Contract Award at Diamondback Correctional Facility
CoreCivic announced a new five-year contract with ICE and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to reopen, likely in early 2026, its 2,160-bed Diamondback Correctional Facility, idle since 2010. The agreement, effective September 30, 2025, includes fixed and per diem payments and is expected to generate about $100 million annually once fully operational.
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October 23, 20252025.10.23 Reported: Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy - CNN
CNN reports that DHS is channeling $10 billion through the U.S. Navy to build detention centers faster. This money will go toward buildings that are set to start in November 2025. The contracting is "a joint effort between DHS and the Defense Department and leans on the Navy's Supply Systems Command as a contracting arm to hire companies for construction and maintenance of the detention facilities." Detention centers built through this initiative will likely be soft-sided tents and may be on existing Navy installations. The goal is for the facilities to house as many as 10,000 people each; they are expected to be built in Louisiana, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Utah, and Kansas.
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November 7, 20252025.11.07 Reported: ‘Mega detention centers’: ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants - NBC News
NBC News reports that ICE is considering buying warehouses designed for companies like Amazon and converting them for detention. On average, the warehouses are more than twice the size of current ICE detention facilities. The exact locations of such warehouses are unknown, but ICE is exploring the southern U.S. near airports.
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NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: Final/Actual In LitigationTrump Administration Action: Presidential OrdersSubject Matter: DetentionAssociated or Derivative Policies
- January 20, 2025 EO 14159 § 10 directs DHS to use all legally available resources to increase detention capacity
- January 20, 2025 Detention-capacity levels following EO 14159 § 10
- January 20, 2025 Conditions of short-term detention and holding rooms following EO 14159 § 10
- January 20, 2025 Detention-facility conditions following EO 14159 § 10
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Commentary
2025.04.07 New York Times - Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
The New York Times reports that "this latest request is what is known as a bulk or blanket purchase agreement," and that the request includes "several changes to how immigration detention currently operates, including an invitation to the Defense Department to use its own funding to play a role in detaining immigrants." The report explains that according to the RFP, contractors "will not have to meet the standards for services and detainee care that ICE has typically set for large detention providers. Instead, they can operate under the less rigorous standards the agency uses for contracts with local jails and prisons." The new request also moves services previously under the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman "back in private hands."
Go to article2025.05.01 Bloomberg - The Rising Cost of ICE Flying Immigrants to Far-Flung Detention Centers
Bloomberg describes the costs of transferring immigrants to distant detention centers. Military deportation-flights cost over $850,000. The administration's broader immigration-enforcement agenda, including mass deportations and expanded detention-facilities, is projected to cost $200-$350 billion.
Go to article2025.05.12 Bloomberg - Addicted to ICE: Like a growing number of US communities, Torrance County, New Mexico, is convinced its financial survival depends on locking up immigrants
Bloomberg reports on towns across the United States whose job markers and local finances are becoming increasingly dependent on partnerships with private prison companies and ICE.
Go to article2025.05.19 Marshall Project - Rural Missouri Jails See Windfall in Trump’s Mass Deportation Effort
The Marshall Project reports on the expansion of ICE detention facilities in rural Missouri counties. With a new agreement, Ozark County Jail raised wages and hired additional staff. The report discusses concerns about detainee care and oversight, particularly after the suicide of 27-year-old Brayan Garzón in Phelps County Jail, following delays in medical and mental health care.
Go to article2025.05.26 Wall Street Journal - The Billion-Dollar Business Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
The Wall Street Journal reports that government spending on detaining and deporting noncitizens has "jumped 50% from last year." The government pays private businesses hundreds of millions of dollars for detention and deportation contracts.
Go to article2025.12.18 NPR - ICE is reopening shuttered prisons as detention centers
NPR reports that ICE is reopening empty prisons as detention centers. These prisons had previously been shut down for reasons such "staffing issues, allegations of abuse, [and] even simply that there are fewer people in prison today than a few decades ago." NPR found at least 16 previously shuttered facilities that ICE has reopened as detention centers since January 2025. Of concern, "[m]any of these prisons faced allegations of poor conditions while they were open, and they're reopening at a time when the government has cut oversight measures."
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