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Botany

(76,814 posts)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 12:42 PM 6 hrs ago

Trump, Miller, Bondi, & Noem want to spend 38 billion $s to have more bed capacity then Nazi Germany ...

….. had in the total # of prisoners in 1941 German Concentration Camps. They” are planning for some nasty things. Botany =



Source wiki concentration camps

Remember nobody has been charged with any crimes or given trials but they are planning to build
a huge prison complex for some kind of crimes and maybe I am wrong but I don’t think these prison
cells and beds are just for immigrants.

Federal immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 billion to boost detention capacity to 92,600 beds, a document released Friday shows, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly purchases warehouses to turn into detention and processing facilities.

It said ICE plans 16 regional processing centers with a population of 1,000 to 1,500 detainees, whose stays would average three to seven days. Another eight large-scale detention centers would be capable of housing 7,000 to 10,000 detainees for periods averaging less than 60 days.

The document also refers to the acquisition of 10 existing "turnkey" facilities.

Plans call for all of them to be up and running by November as immigration officials roll out a massive $45 billion expansion of detention facilities financed by President Donald Trump's recent tax-cutting law.

https://www.kcra.com/article/ice-383-billion-detention-center-beds/70353306





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Trump, Miller, Bondi, & Noem want to spend 38 billion $s to have more bed capacity then Nazi Germany ... (Original Post) Botany 6 hrs ago OP
They're the ones who need to be in prison. Hopefully for life. Initech 6 hrs ago #1
How many electeds have stock in these companies? leftstreet 6 hrs ago #2
So how many of you believe this is al for immigrants? Amaryllis 4 hrs ago #3

leftstreet

(39,663 posts)
2. How many electeds have stock in these companies?
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 12:54 PM
6 hrs ago
ICE’s Largest Prison Contractors Hail ‘New Growth Opportunities’ as Revenue Reaches All-Time High

Feb 12, 2026
Two of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) biggest contractors for building and managing detention centers have posted record revenue in 2025, as companies are expanding their facilities nationwide to hold more immigrants apprehended by the Trump Administration.

GEO Group, which operates 19 facilities for ICE around the country, reported $2.6 billion in total revenue in 2025, up 6% from $2.43 billion in 2024. CoreCivic, which owns and operates at least ten ICE detention facilities, reported $2.2 billion in total revenue in 2025, up 13% from $1.96 billion in 2024.

During their earnings calls, both companies hailed the rapid expansion of their facilities, marking it a “significant growth opportunity,” and said they are working to reactivate facilities that were previously phased out under the Biden Administration to meet ICE’s increasing detention demands. The two companies have told ICE that, together, they can hold an additional population of 19,000 if needed.

Asked by one caller about how he views the current rate of ICE detentions—which, at fewer than 100,000 immigrants a day, the caller described as “below what investors thought [it] was going to be”— CEO of CoreCivic Patrick Swindle responded by assuring investors that the immigration crackdown will pick up pace.

https://time.com/7378284/ice-immigration-detention-contractors-record-revenue/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=130226


I love that this CEO is named Patrick Swindle

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