DHS buys two California migrant detention centers for $1.5B to boost ICE deportation capacity

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) purchased 2 migrant detention centers successful California for $1.5 billion, the bureau confirmed to Fox News Digital.

The merchantability of the 2,560-bed California City Detention Facility and the 1,994-bed Otay Mesa Detention Center — 2 of the largest migrant detention facilities successful the Golden State — closed earlier this month, according to a property merchandise from Tennessee-based CoreCivic, the backstage situation institution that sold the facilities.

DHS said it utilized funds from President Donald Trump's spending measure signed past summertime to acquisition the facilities, arsenic the medication seeks to proceed the president's wide deportation agenda.

"The Department of Homeland Security purchased the California City Detention Facility and the Otay Mesa Detention Center," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "This acquisition was made imaginable by President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill that allowed ICE to grow detention abstraction to fulfill the President’s committedness of wide deportations."

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The Department of Homeland Security purchased 2 migrant detention centers successful California for $1.5 billion. (Getty Images)

The facilities volition equip the national authorities with much resources to transportation retired Trump's migration policies without relying connected backstage situation companies, arsenic DHS says California's alleged sanctuary polices effort to artifact migration officials from utilizing backstage prisons to clasp migrants surviving successful the state illegally.

"Unlike successful states similar Florida and Oklahoma, ICE tin not trust connected section authorities and region partners for detention abstraction successful California," the DHS spokesperson said. "The state’s sanctuary politicians proceed to propulsion authorities to outlaw oregon marque backstage prisons financially infeasible. Now, with national ownership of these detention centers, which are important to ICE’s detention web connected the westbound coast, ICE retains the detention capableness needed to arrest, detain, and region amerciable aliens."

CoreCivic said it expects nett proceeds to beryllium astir $1.1 cardinal aft income taxes and transaction expenses.

The merchantability of the 2,560-bed California City Detention Facility and the 1,994-bed Otay Mesa Detention Center closed earlier this month. (Getty Images)

"We are pleased with the income of these 2 mission-critical facilities for the Company’s authorities partner, which demonstrates the worth of the Company’s underlying existent property portfolio, portion reflecting our relation arsenic a long-term, flexible solutions supplier to government," CoreCivic Chief Executive Patrick Swindle said successful a statement.

"The merchantability of these facilities astatine what we judge is simply a just valuation provides the Company with important equilibrium expanse flexibility and positions america good to turn the Company’s businesses and instrumentality worth to its shareholders, portion remaining a dependable spouse for government," helium added.

The institution said it expects to proceed managing the 2 facilities nether existing absorption contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, though the presumption of the absorption contracts could beryllium modified to bespeak the alteration successful ownership.

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CoreCivic said it expects nett proceeds to beryllium astir $1.1 cardinal aft income taxes and transaction expenses. (Getty Images)

The California City installation declaration expires successful August 2027 and the declaration for the Otay Mesa facility, which is located successful San Diego, expires successful December 2029, with the enactment to widen for 5 much years.

CoreCivic said it is successful discussions with ICE astir perchance selling further detention facilities, though it said those talks are successful assorted stages and cannot supply assurances that those income volition happen.

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Eight ICE detention facilities are presently operating successful California and harvester to clasp astir 9,000 people.

The recently purchased California City and Otay Mesa facilities person some faced lawsuits by detainees implicit alleged mistreatment. CoreCivic has denied those allegations.