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Pedro Camacho

Companies With No Prison Background Seek Share of Trump's $45B Migrant Detention Plan: Report

An inmate raises his hands for help in the courtyard of ICE's Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas. (Credit: Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

An internal planning road map obtained by The Washington Post and published on Friday revealed that the Trump administration plans to double immigration detention space by the end of this year, reaching more than 107,000 beds, including in mega-facilities, tents and at least two new family detention centers .

This expansion, funded by an unprecedented $45 billion detention budget approved last month by Congress, has attracted multiple companies with no prior experience in immigration detention, a new Bloomberg report has revealed. These companies include disaster-response firms, event logistics providers, and defense contractors

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