Federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown
The Trump administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday — a return to a strategy that drew allegations of mistreatment during the president’s first term.
In a statement to the Associated Press, the prison agency said it is assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “by housing detainees and will continue to support our law enforcement partners to fulfill the administration’s policy objectives.”
The Bureau of Prisons declined to say how many immigration detainees it is taking in, or which prison facilities are being used.
