On January 29, 2025, President Trump shared plans to detain 30,000 people at Guantánamo Bay, a military base in Cuba. It has also been reported that ICE intends to detain people at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado. These announcements come as part of the administration’s plan to more than double Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detention capacity, including opening four new 10,000 bed detention facilities (like other military bases), as well as 14 smaller sites with space for 700 to 1,000 people.
These plans will require a massive infusion of resources from the federal government to pay for the construction and staffing of new large-scale detention facilities on military bases and elsewhere, with much of that money going into the pockets of private prison and military contractors. Temporary, large-scale detention facilities exacerbate the well-documented abuse inherent to the detention system, including unsanitary conditions and medical neglect, given the sheer number of people in ICE custody paired with a complete lack of oversight and transparency on military bases.
This moment demands a national outcry — our elected officials cannot afford to remain silent on Trump’s excessive cruelty. Rather, they must meaningfully oppose Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda by denying Trump the resources he needs to carry it out. |
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