On an investor call, executives at one of the largest private prison companies in the United States, CoreCivic, said that “it wouldn’t surprise us” if the GOP-controlled Congress and administration struck deals to ramp up capacity in ICE’s private detention even before the next budget is finished.
As part Republicans’ mass deportation agenda, Trump administration border czar Tom Homan has said that ICE will need a minimum of 100,000 beds in detention centers around the country, more than double the current 46,000 that are available.
