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ICE Buys Warehouse Network to Support Ramped Up Deportation Operations
InfoWars.com ^ | February 1st, 2026 9:12 AM | InfoWars

Posted on 02/01/2026 11:42:28 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to convert 23 e-commerce warehouses across the country, primarily in the eastern U.S., into a large-scale network of immigration detention centers aimed at expanding capacity to fulfill the mandate the American people gave President Trump to deport more than one million illegal aliens per year and restore national security.

This comes after the Biden-Harris globalist regime collapsed borders and allowed a nation-killing invasion of ten million or more third-worlders.

Bloomberg reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rapid move to build out a network of warehouses is being fueled by $45 billion from the signature “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” This includes the most recent purchases of a warehouse in Hagerstown, Maryland, and another in Surprise, Arizona, totaling $172 million. A third in El Paso, Texas, will be one of the largest of its kind, with 8,500 beds.

The ICE detention system is only growing larger and larger, with ever-greater numbers of illegals who invaded the nation being deported. The current level of illegals held in detention is at a record of 73,000. To reach a million deportations per year, ICE must have 100,000 detention beds.

Emma Winger, deputy legal director at the American Immigration Council, told the outlet that the Trump administration must expand its deportation infrastructure to meet its goal of 1 million per year.

“To reach these kinds of numbers, they’d need to go out into the communities and find people who’ve been living their lives and been here a long time,” Winger said. “They’d have to dramatically increase their presence in communities across the country.”

Unhinged leftist Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen called Trump’s deportation operations “one of the most obscene, one of the most inhumane, and one of the most illegal operations being carried out by this Trump administration at the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.”

“We do not want an ICE facility here in the state of Maryland,” Van Hollen told the outlet.

Why is that Van Hollen? Is it the fear that a future voting bloc of illegals will be deported from the Mid-Atlantic region?

However, what Van Hollen doesn’t mention is that mass migration policies supported by his own party fuel smuggling networks run by cartels and aided by dark-money funded NGOs. These smuggling networks put migrants at risk of robbery, extortion, kidnapping, human trafficking, assault, and exploitation along the way. Thousands have died along the way, but rarely do you hear Democrats raising concern about US-bound smuggling networks, only Trump’s deportation program is worse than literal ‘Nazis’…

ICE expects to hold between 1,500 and 10,000 detainees in each of these 23 warehouses at a time.

The question that should be asked is why Democrats jeopardized national security by allowing the illegal alien invasion. The answer is political, with the goal of creating a new voting bloc and entrenching long-term one-party dominance under Democratic Party kings and queens.


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Looks like somebody intends to deport 30,000,000+ illegals.
1 posted on 02/01/2026 11:42:28 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WINNING


2 posted on 02/01/2026 11:45:49 AM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“to deport more than one million illegal aliens per year “

per year?
will need near 1 million per month of his Admin to get the bulk of them removed.


3 posted on 02/01/2026 11:51:05 AM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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per year? will need near 1 million per month of his Admin to get the bulk of them removed.

If only we had you for President!

You could just snap your fingers and get'er done!

Little things like logistics wouldn't stand in your way!

4 posted on 02/01/2026 11:54:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Insane, no: “To reach a million deportations per year, ICE must have 100,000 detention beds.”


5 posted on 02/01/2026 11:58:55 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: b4me
Overview of ICE Deportation Logistics

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) handles the enforcement and removal of noncitizens who violate immigration laws. The logistics involve a multi-step process from arrest to physical removal, requiring coordination across federal agencies, contractors, and international partners. This includes detention management, legal proceedings, transportation, and administrative tasks like obtaining travel documents.

Below is a high-level breakdown of the key logistical elements based on standard operations.

1. Arrest and Initial Detention

2. Legal Proceedings3. Transportation and RemovalKey Logistical Components in Table Format
Component
Description
Key Challenges/Notes
Detention Beds
~41,500 funded beds; mix of ICE-run and contracted facilities.

Overcapacity leads to releases or transfers; costs ~$44,000 per deportee for monitoring/detention.
Transportation Fleet
Buses/vans for ground; 10+ chartered planes for air.

Contractors handle operations; average removal flight cost ~$17,000.
Personnel
~20,000 ICE agents/staff; supported by 25 field offices.

Fugitive ops and removal management units coordinate nationwide.
Data/Tracking
Uses tools like LexisNexis for locating individuals, bypassing some local restrictions.
Privacy concerns; real-time jail data access.

Costs
Per-deportee averages ~$70,000 (arrest to removal); air removals higher.
Scales with volume; mass efforts could require billions in expansion.
In practice, most removals are government-funded, with air being the primary mode for efficiency. For large-scale operations, ICE would need expanded resources, including more agents, beds, and transport, potentially involving military or local support. Processes can vary by nationality, case type, and current policies.


6 posted on 02/01/2026 12:03:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

MAGA good deal he’s doing it nobody else will.


7 posted on 02/01/2026 12:10:13 PM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: 9YearLurker

This process could be neverending considering the large famies had by illegals.


8 posted on 02/01/2026 12:11:47 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: stars & stripes forever

It’s bringing a teaspoon to an Olympic-sized pool.

There is so much that should have been done 12 months ago, but wasn’t. Close down the subsidies, jobs, housing, remittances, etc., and we’d flush millions out of here.

I remember Erik Prince pitching how the feds could deputize many immigration judges, set them up in stadiums, and flight and ship masses of them out of here. He offered a contract on it, but Trump was going for the usual RINO deception and amnesty plan instead.


9 posted on 02/01/2026 12:15:06 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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Presumably these are not permanent institutions as the idea is hold them some place while gearing up the logistics for mass expulsion?

Over by Democratic Underground they are calling these "concentration camps" and speculating about gas chambers. And all around whipping themselves into a frenzy.

10 posted on 02/01/2026 12:16:48 PM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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How would Trump have done ANYTHING 12 months ago? He would only have been in office a week and a half. Congress was still dragging their feet getting his cabinet approved for months after that.

Did you lose track of time?


11 posted on 02/01/2026 12:19:05 PM PST by madison10 ("...the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty." Psalm 74:20b [NKJV])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey, lots of room for the “protestors”…


12 posted on 02/01/2026 12:24:33 PM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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Trump administration might be getting ready for the civil war being perpetrated by the party of satan and their THUGS who are taking over the streets, hotels, restaurants, grocery stores and places of Jewish and Christian worship.
No place is safe from them. They interfere daily with peoples’ lives.
The demoncrats have the CCP and several demonic billionaires behind them.
Perhaps an insurrection declaration is coming…..if so, the military will be on the streets, the THUGS arrested and taken to holding tanks to await prosecution.


13 posted on 02/01/2026 12:38:28 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: madison10

No, dear. Should have been day one executive orders and negotiations with Congress. Instead, we got his first utterances of amnesty a couple of months in—and then a big fat defense of it to the globalists in Davos a couple of weeks ago. Plus having done nothing for real mass deportations. Perhaps you should wake up?


14 posted on 02/01/2026 12:40:34 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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Presumably these are not permanent institutions as the idea is hold them some place while gearing up the logistics for mass expulsion?

I don't know what you mean by "mass expulsion."

Deportation is a sequential process, as explained in the link below.

If you know of some other way to do it, I am sure Trump would be interested.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4365033/posts?page=6#6

15 posted on 02/01/2026 12:45:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4365001/posts

😊👍


16 posted on 02/01/2026 12:49:07 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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I searched for "warehouse" but that didn't show up.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=warehouse

If if had, I would have just posted there as a link.

17 posted on 02/01/2026 12:52:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If they were serious about deportations, they would cut off the money. Prosecute employers of illegals. They know who they are. Tax remittances to certain countries at 100%. Why aren’t they doing that?


18 posted on 02/01/2026 12:57:36 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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Small minded businesses owners are big contributors to the nutless old poopers.


19 posted on 02/01/2026 12:59:29 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: 9YearLurker

As if he didn’t have enough to do


20 posted on 02/01/2026 1:00:11 PM PST by madison10 ("...the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty." Psalm 74:20b [NKJV])
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