The Department of Homeland Security wants to rent more space in jails in Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, and Utah, to hold more illegal immigrants before their repatriation, according to a federal request to companies.
The request has been expected because the department has already announced it wants to increase the total number of people that can be held while being processed for repatriation. This year, department ask Congers to provide $1.2 billion in 2018 so that it can hold up to 48,000 illegals, foreign criminals and migrants per day.
According to USA Today:
From Jan. 22 through Sept. 9, the agency arrested 97,482 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a 43% increase over the same time period in 2016 under President Barack Obama, according to the latest ICE figures. – READ MORE
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