A proposed ICE detention center in Arizona will need to house 775 people at the 500-bed lockup in order to keep up with the skyrocketing number of migrants and asylum-seekers being arrested amid President Trump’s mass deportation crackdown, according to federal procurement documents reviewed by The Independent.
“DHS/ICE needs to increase bed capacity to meet the administration’s interior enforcement and border decompression goals,” states a contracting notice the agency issued Wednesday. “This contract supports the ICE ERO Phoenix Field Office with the provision of comprehensive detention services for two years.”
