Original Date Announced

Section 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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2025.02.26 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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2025.02.27 ICE modifies contract with CoreCivic to increase detention capacity

CoreCivic, a private prison company, announced it has entered into contract modifications with ICE to increase immigration-detention capacity. The modifications will allow for an additional 784 immigrants to be detained at its facilities in OH, NV, and OK, and allow ICE to use 252 beds for immigration detention at its correctional facility in MS.

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2025.02.27 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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2025.04.01 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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2025.04.02 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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2025.06.16 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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2025.08.08 Complaint - Barco Mercado v. Noem

Sergio Barco Mercado, a Peruvian immigrant and New Jersey resident, filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to challenge the "crowded, squalid, and punitive" conditions of confinement at 26 Federal Plaza, a Manhattan ICE office where ICE detains immigrants arrested at court hearings and check-ins. The complaint alleges that ICE has banned attorneys from accessing clients there, describing "concrete cells" designed to hold people for hours, in which ICE has "packed" people "for a week or more." The complaint states that the holding center has no beds or showers; detainees sleep "on the floor next to the toilet," in cells that are "either freezing or oppressively hot," and receive "at most only two small meals a day." Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to ensure access to counsel and improve conditions of confinement. Barco Mercado v. Noem, 1:25-cv-06568 (S.D.N.Y.).

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2025.08.12 Temporary Restraining Order - Barco Mercado v. Noem.pdf

Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York issues a Temporary Restraining Order ("TRO") imposing minimum standards governing physical and sanitary conditions for detainees arrested and held by ICE at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. The TRO requires ICE to allow detainees held there to obtain and make confidential phone calls to legal counsel and to provide a fact sheet to detainees with their legal rights. It also requires that ICE's Online Detainee Locator System "accurately identifies the location of each Detainee in real time or as close thereto as is reasonably possible." Plaintiffs' request for class certification and a preliminary injunction remain pending. Barco Mercado v. Noem, No. 1:25-cv-06568 (S.D.N.Y.).

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2025.08.15 Reported: ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this year - Washington Post

The Washington Post reports that internal documents reveal ICE's plan to rapidly expand detention by opening or enlarging 125 facilities this year to reach capacity for more than 107,000 people. The planning roadmap shows that ICE intends to expand immigration detention to new parts of the country, nearly doubling its number of large-scale, mega-detention centers and relying increasingly on temporary “soft-sided” structures that can be built in weeks. The Trump administration also plans to dramatically grow family detention.

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2025.09.04 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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2025.09.16 ICE Detentions in New York County Jails Have Exploded - New York Focus

NY Focus reports that from January to July 2025, 2,800 individuals arrested by ICE have been held across seven New York county jails, up from 500 booked in 2024. Because private detention centers are banned in New York, county jails are central for ICE. The increase comes after several New York counties agreed to hold detained immigrants on behalf of federal agencies on a paid per-day basis. The average length of stay ranges from two days to 33 days. Legal advocates report that detainees in county jails are often difficult to locate and many jails are not equipped to facilitate detainees' language and legal needs.

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2025.09.17 Preliminary Injunction - Barco Mercado v. Noem.pdf

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a preliminary injunction ordering ICE to improve conditions for migrants detained at a Manhattan immigration-holding facility. The court granted provisional class certification for current and future detainees. ICE must provide detainees with adequate space (no less than 50 square feet per person), clean bedding, basic hygiene products, and free, confidential and unmonitored calls with their attorneys within 24 hours of detention. Class plaintiffs are "very likely to succeed" on the merits of their claims that holding-room conditions at 26 Federal Plaza violate the First and Fifth Amendments, and that they have been seriously injured or face a clear threat of irreparable injury absent relief. Barco Mercado v. Noem 1:25-cv-06568 (S.D.N.Y.)

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2025.09.18 Complaint and Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus - Pablo Sequen v. Albarran, et al.pdf

A coalition of immigrant-rights groups and individual plaintiffs filed a class action against the Trump administration in the Northern District of California, challenging the administration's policy of courthouse arrests in Northern California and the prolonged detention of immigrants in "punitive and inhumane" conditions at the ICE field office in San Francisco. The suit argues that detainees are held in unsanitary conditions and deprived of sleep and medical care in violation of the Fifth Amendment; denied access to counsel in violation of the First and Fifth Amendments; and subjected to long waits in "hold rooms" under an agency policy that violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The suit also contests the constitutionality of the named plaintiffs' detention. Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief and ask the court to order the detained plaintiffs released. Pablo Sequen v. Albarran, 5:25-cv-06487-PCP (N.D. Cal.).

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2025.09.23 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 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seeking records regarding ICE's plans for expanding immigration detention in Colorado and Wyoming, including at the vacant private prison 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 Foundation of Colorado v. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 1:25-cv-02983, (D. Colo.).

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