Image: from ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US.
This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration.
Proliferation of ICE Offices
2026
February 10. Leah Feiger: ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next.
2025
September 18. Hannah Natanson & Robert Klemko: ICE seeks hundreds of new offices across U.S. as agency expands: Officials are looking for new sites to support plans to hire thousands of new deportation officers and lawyers.
Mass Construction of ICE Detention Centers
2026
January 29. Sophie Alexander & Fola Akinnibi: ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US.
January 30. Jonathan O’Connell & Douglas MacMillan: ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals.
February 3. The Associated Press: Trump’s $45 billion expansion of immigrant detention sites faces pushback from communities: Federal officials have been scouting cities and counties across the U.S. for places to hold more immigrants.
February 9. Lautaro Grinspan: ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April: Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
February 12. Grant Blankenship: A town’s warehouse will become an ICE detention center. The town says it wasn’t asked.
2025
August 7. Anna Betts: Fort Bliss army base on US southern border to take 1,000 Ice detainees: Fort Bliss could be largest US immigration detention facility as White House moves to use military bases for crackdown.
August 23. Naomi LaChance: Trump Is Holding Immigrants at a Former Japanese Internment Camp.
September 16. The Washington Post: 60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Ft. Bliss. As the Trump administration rushes to open massive makeshift holding centers nationwide, ICE’s own inspectors say the marquee Texas project is violating dozens of federal standards for immigrant detention.
September 27. Sam Levin: ‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help.
October 20. Lynne Peeples: Dim days, bright nights: a hidden cruelty of Ice detention. Tens of thousands of people held across the US amid Trump’s immigration crackdown could face an insidious hazard: broken internal clocks.
October 31. Michael Loria: ‘Black box in which to disappear people’: Detainees describe ICE facility in lawsuit.
December 10. Taylor Giorno & Jackie Llanos: ICE Wants to Build an Oregon Detention Facility. Contractors Say Construction Plans Are Alarming.
December 18. Meg Anderson: ICE is reopening shuttered prisons as detention centers. Many have a troubled past.
December 24. Douglas MacMillan & Jonathan O’Connell: ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses.