ACLU FOIA Litigation Continues to Disclose ICE Proposals to Develop Immigration Detention Nationwide

ACLU, Jan. 15, 2025

“Newly launched paperwork obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union affirm that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is actively contemplating proposals to develop its immigration detention capability in at the very least eight states, together with Michigan, California, Kansas, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington state. The information, secured as a part of an ongoing Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the ACLU in September 2024, reveal that non-public jail firms, in addition to different company entities that present companies to construct short-term amenities, monitor compliance, and employees amenities submitted proposals for expanded immigration detention in response to ICE’s contract requests. The invention comes simply weeks after the ACLU acquired its first and second tranche of FOIA paperwork revealing that ICE is contemplating increasing detention amenities in a number of states. “These information solely additional affirm ICE’s work to develop immigration detention throughout the nation, together with in amenities with clear information of abuse, and in areas the place immigration detention has not beforehand existed. Growth of detention will solely allow ICE to enact President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation,” stated Eunice Cho, senior employees lawyer on the ACLU’s Nationwide Jail Challenge. “We won’t stand idly by for the subsequent 4 years and watch ICE proceed to detain immigrants in inhumane and life-threatening situations.” The brand new paperwork affirm that non-public jail firms GEO Group, Inc., CoreCivic, and Administration and Coaching Company (MTC), in addition to Goal Hospitality, which supplies short-term tent amenities, submitted proposals to Requests for Data (RFI) to develop ICE’s detention capability and amenities. …”