Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a $30 million contract last week that moves to convert vacant warehouses into mega detention centers, increasing capacity in the Trump administration’s push to supercharge deportations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be moving forward with its reported plans to buy up vacant Amazon-style warehouses to create “mega” detention centers, new procurement records reviewed by the Lever reveal.

On Friday, the agency inked a new $29.9 million contract for “concept design” for “processing centers and mega centers throughout the United States.” This document appears to be the first step toward realizing the agency’s alleged plans to retrofit warehouse space as detention facilities for immigrants in its custody, a development that NBC reporte

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