ICE plans new 1,000-bed facility in South Texas 'detention alley'

[TexasTowelie]

As the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, the federal government is making plans for a new privately run detention center along Interstate 35 in South Texas, adding 1,000 beds to what is already the world’s largest immigrant detention system.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this month asked private companies to submit preliminary proposals for a new facility housing adult men and women detainees between San Antonio and Laredo, where there are already seven detention centers.

Although arrests of unauthorized immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border have declined sharply since Trump’s election, arrests from interior enforcement efforts are on the rise.

Trump’s promised expansion of the detention system represents a boon to the private prison industry, which is dominated by two companies, CCA and the GEO Group, and portends a continued focus on interior actions like the ICE raids in Austin in February that sparked controversy because more than half of the 53 immigrants arrested had no criminal history.

Read more: http://www.mystatesman.com/news/ice-plans-new-000-bed-facility-south-texas-detention-alley/VXJpu6GmefTW58THHccoTM/

[kimbutgar]

1. Modern day gulags or concentration camps?

I dreamed about this the other night and now I read it. In my dream I remember that there were already camps that people are being abused in and tortured and treated like slaves. Ii woke up in a cold sweat because it was so vivid.