Good: ICE Reportedly Planning Eight, 10,000-Bed Deportation Facilities by Nov.

Closing the border and defenestrating anyone who is in the United States illegally was a major point of President Trump's 2024 campaign, and despite lockstep opposition from Democrats and the far left (but I repeat myself), he sure is getting the job done. The border is closed, and almost two million illegals, one way or another, have gone home.

Now, it seems Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to pick up the pace, and that's good, because the pace needs picking up; there may be as many as 20 million more people in the country illegally. To that end, ICE is planning eight new massive detention centers, with room for nearly 100,000 detainees.

That's a good thing.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to boost migrant detention capacity to 92,600 beds as part of a nationwide deportation push, according to an internal agency memo.

The memo, dated Feb. 13, 2026, lays out a sweeping overhaul designed to support what ICE describes as the ability to "effectuate mass deportations," including eight mega-centers capable of housing up to 10,000 detainees each and slated to be fully operational by Nov. 30, 2026. The memo states that the initiative will be funded through congressional allocations under the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

Beyond the mega-centers, the plan calls for 16 regional processing sites built to hold between 1,000 and 1,500 detainees for short stays of three to seven days, as well as the acquisition of 10 existing "turnkey" facilities where ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations already operates. The new model aims to consolidate existing contracts while centralizing detention operations nationwide.

That's what we voted for.

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Example: One of the smaller, regional processing sites has already been acquired in Surprise, Arizona, a warehouse that will be converted to house 1,500 detainees.  

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it would add a processing facility with about 1,500 beds in Surprise as part of the agency's efforts to expand detention space.

The agency, through an unidentified spokesperson, acknowledged the move in a Jan. 30 email.

Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, is complaining about the move. Too bad. This is a federal issue, and it's what we voted for. 

A country with no borders is no country at all. A country that cannot police people crossing those borders illegally, especially the kinds of goblins ICE is prioritizing, has failed at the primary role of government: Preserving and protecting the liberty and property of the citizens. During the many years of non-enforcement by the Biden administration and previous Democratic administrations, as many as 20 million people have entered and remain in the United States illegally. They need to be sent back.

We can count on only three more years of an administration willing to do so. We can hope for longer, but that's what we have for now. This has to be done, and it has to be done quickly. The nearly two million already deported, voluntarily and involuntarily, well, that's a good start, but that's all it is - a good start.

Now, to finish the task. It may remind one of the labors of Heracles, but it has to be done.

Editor’s Note: We voted for mass deportations, not mass amnesty. Help us continue to fight back against those trying to go against the will of the American people.

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