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Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat

The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities.

Greg Sargent

The New Republic: 04 February 2026

The public backlash unleashed by Trump’s immigration agenda runs far deeper than revulsion at imagery of ICE violence. It’s now seemingly coalescing against the goal of mass removals as a broader ideological project.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to retrofit around two dozen vast new facilities. In keeping with Trump-Miller’s visions, ICE vows to detain an additional 80,000 people in them.

Some will reportedly hold up to 10,000 detainees apiece. In other words, the Trump threat to create a system of new detention camps is just getting underway in earnest.

[The] ideal of bureaucratic “capacity,” allows Trump to imprison and then deport vastly more people a whole lot faster. Right now, more than 70,000 migrants are languishing in detention—a record—but the administration is running out of space. Add another 80,000 beds, and it would supercharge expulsion capacity.

Yet these detention dreams are hitting stiff opposition. ICE wants to buy a warehouse in Virginia’s Hanover County, Residents recently turned out in force and angrily condemned the proposed sale. The GOP-heavy Board of Supervisors opposed the transaction. The warehouse owner canceled the sale.

The Republican mayor of Oklahoma City came out against a proposed ICE warehouse, with the owner also nixing the sale. Officials in places like Kansas City, Missouri, and Salt Lake City, Utah, are also dead set against plans for ICE camps in their locales.

In New Jersey, the Roxbury Township Council recently voted unanimously to oppose ICE’s plans to buy a warehouse there, with some locals sharply protesting the scheme for humanitarian reasons. Morris County recently voted unanimously to oppose ICE’s plans to buy a warehouse there, with some locals sharply protesting the scheme for humanitarian reasons.

See this remarkable column in the Kansas City Star that seeks to shame warehouse owners into refraining from selling to ICE, arguing that doing so risks social ostracism. Similar efforts probably helped persuade owners to nix selling in Oklahoma and deep-red parts of Virginia. The growing opposition to ICE prison camps suggests much, much more of this to come.

We’re already seeing mass protests outside existing facilities. Those are smaller than some of the gargantuan new camps ICE hopes to create, yet migrant deaths are already soaring in the current facilities, and the bigger ones will be even worse.

“If they build them, they will fill them,” Maddow said, labeling them “prison camps.” She added: “How do you think those facilities are going to be run?”

ICE has become a pariah agency.

Majorities oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs and no criminal record and view immigration as a positive good for the country.

In that Pew poll, 60 percent of Americans oppose pausing visa applications for the 75 countries Trump has singled out, [and] two-thirds oppose ending asylum applications for people fleeing horrors abroad.

5 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

[Opinion. Who will be operating these prison camps? The usual suspects who now run America's private prisons: CoreCivic, GEO Group, LaSalle Corrections, Management and Training Corporation. All these are public-trading companies. Invest in America's future!]

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat

The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities.

Greg Sargent

The New Republic: 04 February 2026

The public backlash unleashed by Trump’s immigration agenda runs far deeper than revulsion at imagery of ICE violence. It’s now seemingly coalescing against the goal of mass removals as a broader ideological project.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to retrofit around two dozen vast new facilities. In keeping with Trump-Miller’s visions, ICE vows to detain an additional 80,000 people in them.

Some will reportedly hold up to 10,000 detainees apiece. In other words, the Trump threat to create a system of new detention camps is just getting underway in earnest.

[The] ideal of bureaucratic “capacity,” allows Trump to imprison and then deport vastly more people a whole lot faster. Right now, more than 70,000 migrants are languishing in detention—a record—but the administration is running out of space. Add another 80,000 beds, and it would supercharge expulsion capacity.

Yet these detention dreams are hitting stiff opposition. ICE wants to buy a warehouse in Virginia’s Hanover County, Residents recently turned out in force and angrily condemned the proposed sale. The GOP-heavy Board of Supervisors opposed the transaction. The warehouse owner canceled the sale.

The Republican mayor of Oklahoma City came out against a proposed ICE warehouse, with the owner also nixing the sale. Officials in places like Kansas City, Missouri, and Salt Lake City, Utah, are also dead set against plans for ICE camps in their locales.

In New Jersey, the Roxbury Township Council recently voted unanimously to oppose ICE’s plans to buy a warehouse there, with some locals sharply protesting the scheme for humanitarian reasons. Morris County recently voted unanimously to oppose ICE’s plans to buy a warehouse there, with some locals sharply protesting the scheme for humanitarian reasons.

See this remarkable column in the Kansas City Star that seeks to shame warehouse owners into refraining from selling to ICE, arguing that doing so risks social ostracism. Similar efforts probably helped persuade owners to nix selling in Oklahoma and deep-red parts of Virginia. The growing opposition to ICE prison camps suggests much, much more of this to come.

We’re already seeing mass protests outside existing facilities. Those are smaller than some of the gargantuan new camps ICE hopes to create, yet migrant deaths are already soaring in the current facilities, and the bigger ones will be even worse.

“If they build them, they will fill them,” Maddow said, labeling them “prison camps.” She added: “How do you think those facilities are going to be run?”

ICE has become a pariah agency.

Majorities oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs and no criminal record and view immigration as a positive good for the country.

In that Pew poll, 60 percent of Americans oppose pausing visa applications for the 75 countries Trump has singled out, [and] two-thirds oppose ending asylum applications for people fleeing horrors abroad.

Just to clarify, the last time the United States had concentration camps was during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.

The wording of this thread is an insult to those who actually lived through concentration camps.

2 minutes ago, blaze master said:

The wording of this thread is an insult to those who actually lived through concentration camps.

W ell, what would you call families separated and held in cages? An immigrant kennel? They called the WWII Japanese detained in internment camps. Does that make it better for you?

11 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Of course there are people running hospitality businesses who employ lots of undocumented workers. In fact, until 2017 or so there was a big one in Florida called "Mar-a-Lago". ICE should have hog-tied and arrested the owner of that place.

There was a perfectly sensible reason for that: they couldn't read English biggly, so were unlikely to be able to understand the secret documents stached in the khazi!

Just now, unblocktheplanet said:

W ell, what would you call families separated and held in cages? An immigrant kennel? They called the WWII Japanese detained in internment camps. Does that make it better for you?

Detention. Same as when anyone who commits a crime is separated from their children.

You mean the cages that Obama built ?

1 minute ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Not exactly. I'd like to see it more streamlined, with US support, so as not to fall prey to immigrant coyotes. That's for the Southern border. Fly-ins would require an entirely different procedure.

I think what you're asking me is if I believe there should be no rules. Yes, I think there should be rules, but flexible to allow for compassion and humanity.

I'd be interested to see what past presidents' deportation really accomplished in terms of demographics, employment aso.

You mentioned that if anyone crosses the border, they can stay. I wish the left would be honest about this topic.

1 minute ago, Effective altruism said:

You mentioned that if anyone crosses the border, they can stay. I wish the left would be honest about this topic.

If you can win a 5 year game of hide and seek you good. Smh.

2 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

W ell, what would you call families separated and held in cages? An immigrant kennel? They called the WWII Japanese detained in internment camps. Does that make it better for you?

They used the term "internment camps" to make these camps sound fun. Just like the people on the left use "Nazi" to make everything sound bad.

8 minutes ago, blaze master said:

If you can win a 5 year game of hide and seek you good. Smh.

Once asscorss the border they can perform the touchdown dance. I can guarantee one thing: the next Democratic administration will allow the border to become porous again.

Multiple troll posts removed @Effective altruism discuss the topic and give your opinion and stop baiting other posters with questions.

The big question is who is going to run the gas chambers when Trump starts building them.

16 minutes ago, Effective altruism said:

They used the term "internment camps" to make these camps sound fun. Just like the people on the left use "Nazi" to make everything sound bad.

"Midwest Regional Reception Center"...

...is what CoreCivic is calling their proposed facility in Leavenworth, KS.

What happened to "Alligator Alley"?

6 minutes ago, gargamon said:

The big question is who is going to run the gas chambers when Trump starts building them.

Now steady on, last time round it took the best part of a decade before the massive detention camps (sorry perhaps I should say "Regional Reception Centres") became sufficiently accepted for holding enemies of the state and other "untermensch" before other more "challenging solutions" could be implemented. Give it time, Rome (or the Third Reich) wasn't built in a day! I am sure that there are plans!

21 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

"Midwest Regional Reception Center"...

...is what CoreCivic is calling their proposed facility in Leavenworth, KS.

What happened to "Alligator Alley"?

Closed by the courts.

1 hour ago, blaze master said:

The wording of this thread is an insult to those who actually lived through concentration camps.

Building concentration camps in America is an insult to those who lived through and died in concentration camps.

This is likely just another dream on the part of the fascist goon, and probably part of project 2025 agenda.

He must be stopped, hopefully he will be stopped very soon. Before democracy is gone.

9 hours ago, blaze master said:

Detention. Same as when anyone who commits a crime is separated from their children.

You mean the cages that Obama built ?

Tell us more about these, please, with photos.

7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

He must be stopped, hopefully he will be stopped very soon. Before democracy is gone.

Too late, in the eyes of the world, methinks. If the US can hold up the dollar, it will be a miracle.

He is certainly playing in

China's hands, making them more powerful, far more influential, and increasing the influence of BRICS dramatically. The goon is diminishing the U.S every day he wakes up, and the end result is not going to be pretty.

But even as an American, I can admit that diminishing US influence by the day, may end up being a good thing for the world in the long run. The days of American hubris are winding down thanks to Don the Destroyer.

I think if given enough rope these camps are a definite possibility, fortunately the monstrous creep, the infinite moron will more than likely be experiencing diminished power very soon. And it can't possibly happen soon enough.

9 hours ago, gargamon said:

The big question is who is going to run the gas chambers when Trump starts building them.

The world is not heading where you insinuate it's heading.

More ridiculously insane propaganda to smear Trump.

Okaay, the votes are coming in thick & fast. While I went for concentration camps, detention camps, internment camps and prison camps have all been suggested.

I mean, camping is fun, right, and a free plane ride? Boy Scouts sneaking into Girl Scouts' tents and stealing their...cookies. (Damned autocorrect!)

Thanks, ICE, for giving our hardworking immigrants a little break from the grind!

I think more than a few members really need to invest in a dictionary, as obviously don't know how to search in the internet for what most of the words, adjectives they use mean.

Along with a USA history and political science course.

Thanks for the never ending chuckles

11 hours ago, Effective altruism said:

Just to clarify, the last time the United States had concentration camps was during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.

That is true.

No need to repeat mistakes.

Concentration camps are not necessarily death camps.

Some people are way too easily triggered by accurate terms.

Hilarious

While you worry about Trump...UK and Europe lose their rights by the hour.

Palantir already has all your toxic, dumb asses noted, recorded and under surveillances. I understand a special flag for anti semites too.

Keep enjoying social media 🤣

1 minute ago, Nurf said:

Palantir already has all your toxic, dumb asses noted, recorded and under surveillances.

Epstein was pushing Palantir.

Be very afraid.

12 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

We’re already seeing mass protests outside existing facilities. Those are smaller than some of the gargantuan new camps ICE hopes to create, yet migrant deaths are already soaring in the current facilities, and the bigger ones will be even worse.

I don't believe you.

How are they dying? They're being tortured? Malnourished?

What proof do you have that people are dying in detention centers?

Are you sure your news sources are not just playing dirty politics to try to get Trump impeached?

People keep referencing Nazi Germany, without realizing that 80% of the information they are taking in is nonsense.

Yeah, Trump is Hitler, and the editor of the New York Times is Jesus.

The biggest problem is not physical prisons. The biggest problem is mental illness based on fake news.

11 hours ago, blaze master said:

The wording of this thread is an insult to those who actually lived through concentration camps.

True its a desperate attempt by the same ideologist groups in the 30’s. The Bolsheviks spinning propaganda , trying to cast similarities to a administration who has used past administrations enforcement laws ! To take from a Marxist chant and replacing Streets with laws! who’s laws our laws!

12 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Majorities oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs and no criminal record and view immigration as a positive good for the country.

Get a job in Thailand without a proper visa and overstay your visa and see what happens.