Trump Administration Adds 60 Facilities for Detained Migrants

The Trump administration is stitching together a wider network of immigrant-detention sites, expanding capacity by thousands of beds through agreements with local jails and private contractors across the country.

About 60 additional local, state and federal jails and prisons have begun holding newly arrested migrants facing deportation since Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, according to government figures analyzed by Bloomberg.

The facilities include five run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, four operated by private contractors including CoreCivic Inc. and GEO Group Inc., and two sites at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Together, they held an estimated ...