TEXAS — Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring ways to increase its detention capacity in eight states: California, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas and Washington.
“These records only further confirm ICE’s work to expand immigration detention across the country, including in facilities with clear records of abuse, and in areas where immigration detention has not previously existed,” said Eunice Cho, senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s National Prison Project. “Expansion of detention will only enable ICE to enact President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation.”
These records were discovered from an ongoing ACLU FOIA lawsuit, filed in September 2024…