The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) plans to allocate an investment of 40 billion dollars to acquire and convert more than twenty existing buildings into migrant detention centers, as published by a US governor.
According to a document titled “Detention Reorganization Project,” which has the seal of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE proposes a new model that contemplates acquiring and renovating eight detention centers and 16 processing locations.
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The detention centers will be designed to house between 7,000 and 10,000 people, while the processing places will hold between 1,000 and 1,500 people, according to the document.
In the Regional Processing Centers, detained migrants will remain between three and seven days; while in the mega centers, the stay will be 60 days, before expulsion from the country or other measures taken by the Center.
Of the centers considered in the text published by the governor of New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte, “the acquisition of 10 ready-to-use facilities” is mentioned, where ICE already carries out operations.
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“The total estimated cost of the new detention center model” amounts to “38.3 billion dollars,” says a note made public by the governor.
The deadline to have all the centers contemplated in the document operational will be next November 30, 2026
One of the buildings identified by ICE to operate as a detention center is one located in Merrimack, New Hampshire, of about 30 thousand square meters, in which they plan to install between 400 to 600 beds.
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