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ICE's New Detention Vans Have Reportedly No Rulebook — Here's What the Paperwork Shows

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), on August 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Credit: Photo by Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

  • Contracting paperwork obtained by watchdog group Project Salt Box shows ICE building a fleet of mobile detention units in Pennsylvania, to be operated by GTI, GEO Group's transportation subsidiary, and run "until full."

  • The only operating rule on record limits how long women can be held in a van to 10 hours; nothing addresses meals, bathroom access or maximum stays for anyone else.
  • DHS just signed construction contracts worth more than $7 billion to expand detention capacity in New York, Texas, Arizona, Florida and California, with further expansion announced in Colorado, Washington and Pennsylvania.
  • Those states include every one of the five U.S. metro areas with the largest Hispanic populations, and roughly 70% of people currently in ICE custody have no criminal conviction, according to TRAC.

Buried inside routine contracting paperwork for an ICE build-out in Pennsylvania is a request most people would scroll past: a call for "mobile detention facilities." The document, first surfaced by the watchdog group Project Salt Box, lays out almost nothing about how the vans will actually operate day to day.

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