ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers

February 13, 2026

Washington Post: ICE plans to buy and convert 16 buildings across the countryto serve as regional processing centers, each holding 1,000 to 1,500 immigrant detainees at a time, according to one of the documents, an overview of the detention plan. Another eight large-scale detention centers will hold 7,000 to 10,000 detainees at a time, and serve as “the primary locations” for international removals…