The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
Archived copies of the article:
- archive.today
- web.archive.org
- ghostarchive.org — site has been down intermittently


For context: The average maximum security prison is 800-1200 people, and the largest, at 8300, is in Angola, LA. That has been sufficient for the most incarcerated nation in America. But MAGA thinks we need to imprison even more.
Everybody seems to have forgotten that one of Trump’s first Executive Orders was the construction of a 30,000 bed facility in Guantanamo Bay.
Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity
Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants
And the $250 million contract has been awarded:
Constellis Announces $249 Million Construction Contract at U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Work is currently on progress, and slated to end in 2029, for the next president, I presume.
They’ve been deporting people as fast as they can catch them, and yet they are building facilities all over America, and now this giant one in Guantanamo Bay. If they are deporting people, who do they plan on putting there? The official answer was high profile illegal immigrant criminals, whose home countries couldn’t be trusted to hold them, but there can’t be that many of those people.
So who do they plan holding there, far from the prying eyes of family, lawyers, courts, and especially the media?
And what happens a few years down the line, when nearly all immigrants have been removed? What are they going to do with the richest agency in the government? What are they going to do with all those massive concentration camps? Close them down, and give back the money? Or find a new boogeyman to utilize those resources?
The ones who Epstein can no longer traffic for them. Kids can’t eat and torture themselves you know.