Neil Munro 13 Nov 2024
4:54
President Donald Trump’s deputies say they will dramatically expand the detention space needed for the bureaucratic process of flying illegal migrants back to their foreign homes, according to NBC News.
“The goal is to double the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention beds — 41,000 are now allocated by Congress — to hold … migrants for short periods while they await deportation after their arrests inside the U.S.,” sources told NBC News.
The extra detention beds can be rented from state jails, from private sector companies, or be quickly built by the U.S. military. “That’s something they know how to do,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News. “They’re really good at it, they can do it quickly, and they have the money for it,” he added.
The law-enforcement push is a windfall for companies — GEO Group and CoreCivic — that manage detention space for migrants, NBC reported. The companies were spurned by President Joe Biden’s deputies, who successfully released millions of migrants into the U.S. to take jobs and housing from Americans. NBC News reported:
Brian Evans, GEO Group’s chief executive officer, said on the call, “We’re looking at a theoretical potential doubling of all of our services.”
On CoreCivic’s recent earnings call, CEO Damon Hininger noted that the company already has additional vacant beds in its system that could be used to meet a postelection demand. “So we are taking proactive steps and working on a plan to activate and make available every single bed that we’ve got in the enterprise,” Hininger said. “And again, that’s about 18,000 beds.”
The space is needed for two groups of migrants: The new migrants who must quickly pay their smuggling debts with U.S. jobs, and the illegal migrants who are being sent home, said Krikorian.
When sending migrants home, “it always takes time to get the paperwork from their home country,” Krikorian said:
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https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/11/13/donald-trumps-deputies-eye-more-detention-space-to-block-repatriate-migrants/
