Suddenly Democrats find $38 billion to be a big number when it comes to detaining illegals, when you had NYC spending $5 billion in 2024, Chicago over $300 million, and many more Dem run cities spending hundreds of millions. Some measures show that illegals cost $42 billion in welfare benefits (which they aren’t supposed to receive) a year
ICE to spend $38bn turning warehouses into detention centers, documents show
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) expects to spend an estimated $38.3bn on a plan to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into new immigration detention centers with capacity for tens of thousands of detainees, according to documents the agency sent to the governor of New Hampshire.
The documents, published on the state’s website on Thursday, disclose that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimates it will spend $158m retrofitting a new detention facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and an additional estimated $146m to operate the facility in the first three years.
According to an overview of the plans, which were first reported by the Washington Post, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would buy and convert 16 buildings across the US into regional processing centers, each holding between 1,000 and 1,500 people at a time. Another eight large-scale detention centers would hold 7,000 to 10,000 people at a time and serve as “the primary locations” for deportations. Detainees would spend an average of three to seven days at the processing sites before being transported to the larger facilities, where they would be held about 60 days before being deported.
They can all avoid this by self deporting. It would have been a lot easier if the Biden admin hadn’t let in millions of illegals/fake asylum seekers.
