From: ndot@home.org   
      
   Lee wrote:   
      
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   >ICE Is Gearing Up to Build "Mega" Jails   
   >Feb 16   
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   >ICE is planning on spending $38 billion   
   >on the project.   
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   >Immigration and Customs Enforcement   
   >is planning to spend tens of billions   
   >of dollars on mega-prisons where the   
   >agency can disappear thousands of   
   >people.   
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   >In a memo shared with New Hampshire   
   >Governor Kelly Ayotte, ICE outlined   
   >its $38.3 billion plan to launch a   
   >"new detention center model" that   
   >would expand the agency’s detention   
   >capacity by 92,600 beds by the end   
   >of FY26.   
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   >"This effort aims to meet the growing   
   >demand for bedspace and streamline the   
   >detention and removal process, focusing   
   >on non-traditional facilities built   
   >specifically to support ICE’s needs,"   
   >the memo said. "This model includes   
   >the acquisition and renovation of eight   
   >large-scale detention centers and 16   
   >processing sites, as well as the   
   >acquisition of 10 existing ‘turnkey’   
   >facilities where ICE ERO already   
   >operates."   
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   >The large-scale processing centers,   
   >also called “mega-centers,” would   
   >house between 7,000 and 10,000   
   >detainees for “periods averaging   
   >less than 60 days,” and serve as   
   >the site of international removals.   
   >Other processing facilities would   
   >house between 1,000 and 1,500   
   >detainees for between three and   
   >seven days.   
   >https://newrepublic.com/post/206591/ice-build-mega-jails-38-billion   
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   Great, a place to process and keep the Americans arrested by the   
   government.   
      
   I guess rightists really do hate freedom.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)