Midwest state, like Florida, has partnered with Ice and will add more beds at its Miami correctional facilityUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) is expanding its detention capacity ...
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Midwest state, like Florida, has partnered with Ice and will add more beds at its Miami correctional facility
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) is expanding its detention capacity by 1,000 beds in Indiana through a partnership with the midwest state’s prison system, federal officials announced on Tuesday.
Ice will be housing detainees at the Miami correctional center, a prison run by the Indiana department of corrections. The move is part of the US government’s rapid expansion of immigration jails after Donald Trump’s sweeping spending bill allotted roughly $170bn to Ice, an extraordinary sum making the agency the most heavily funded law enforcement department within the federal government.
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