ICE

 Independent, UK -  Donald Trump’s border czar has admitted that ICE is running out of space to house migrants arrested as part of the ramping up of the president’s deportation sweeps.  “We’re almost at capacity,” Tom Homan told reporters at the White House earlier this week, but added that “we got beds coming online every day.”...

Under the direction of White House special advisor Stephen Miller, ICE agents were tasked with making 3,000 immigration arrests per day, with reports that officials were asked if that number could go even higher. “It’s interesting timing because we don’t have the bed space to support all the arrests,” an anonymous administration official told Politico, echoing Homan’s remarks to reporters.

Figures from late August showed that the Trump administration is holding more than 61,000 people in detention, often giving rise to instances of medical neglect and other poor conditions. The government has fewer than 65,000 beds to house immigrants, the official told Politico.

Despite the number of people being held having almost doubled – some 39,000 were held by ICE during the final days of the Biden administration – capacity has not increased in any significant way.