ICE Is Seeking to Build New Detention Centers Around the U.S. Here’s How Communities Are Battling to Stop It

As the Trump Administration seeks to expand its immigrant detention capacity around the country by converting warehouses and other facilities to house thousands of detainees, local communities, government leaders, and even the would-be sellers of some of the buildings are putting up a fight. 

President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” allocated $45 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to build new detention centers, part of a larger $170 million the law put toward immigration enforcement.