Warner Todd Huston 22 Apr 2025
President Donald Trump’s deputies are expanding detention space for illegal migrants as incoming detainees fill up housing facilities left by the Biden administration.
The administration is closing in on 200,000 deportees, but is running out of places to put the ones waiting their turn while their deportation process is carried out.
Federal data shows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now has about 48,000 illegal aliens in custody, but current federal funding maintains only 41,500 beds. The number of detainees is not about to go down any time soon, either. Trump is still pressuring his agencies to ramp up the apprehensions, according to the Washington Post.
Mike Alvarez, an ICE spokesman, told the paper that his department is working to ease the overcrowding and “promoting safe, secure, humane environments for those in our custody” by moving some detainees to facilities with fewer occupants.
“ICE is diligently working to decompress these detention facilities while maintaining compliance with federal standards and commitment to humane treatment,” Alvarez told the Post.
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https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/22/federal-immigration-holding-facilities-quickly-filling-to-capacity/
