Trump moves to reopen prisons and shuttered immigrant detention facilities for ICE
The Trump administration has begun reopening immigrant detention facilities and shuttered prisons nationwide, the latest move in its effort to arrest, detain, and then deport illegal immigrants in the United States.
Two prison corporations and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have moved quickly to prepare facilities to hold immigrants in virtually every region of the country.
The move followed President Donald Trump's recent comments over the weekend, in which he called for the infamous Alcatraz prison off the San Francisco coast to be reopened to detain "America's most ruthless and violent offenders."
The Department of Homeland Security has maintained that the expansion of immigrant detention space is necessary to carry out Trump's "largest-ever" deportation operation. However, the operation is moving slower than anticipated due to a lack of detention space, where immigrants are held as they go through legal proceedings before they can be deported.
