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More than $45 billion of the Big and Beautiful Act signed by the President on Friday is spent on immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) detention space, which officials say will add thousands of beds to federal detention centers.
As the Trump administration has pledged to orchestrate the largest mass expulsion effort in U.S. history, an estimated $170 billion bill has been designated. However, the final bill is dedicated to ice detention space. According to the Washington Post, during the combined period of the Obama, Biden and First Trump administrations, the House passed the House more than the government spent on housing immigration.
According to a transaction history visit Clearinghouse, federal officials estimate that between ICE and mid-June, ICE will provide another 100,000 beds in the ICE facility in the ice facility with nearly 56,400 immigrants nationwide. The number of detainees increased by more than 5,000 in the first two weeks of June.
Data shows that 28% of those detained have previously been criminally convicted, while 25% have criminal charges.
The bill’s funding bump was approved after Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited a new detention center called “Crocodile Orcatraz.” White House Border Cheese Tom Homan told News Agency’s “Cuomo” this week that Florida Everglades facilities will cost $450 million a year.
But officials say the facility may be a blueprint for more ice detention centers, with the government planning to open after approval of funds.
President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, r-fla. , Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and others, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, Ochopee, Florida, Photo Ap/Evan vucci.
“Everyone we arrested, we need a bed because they will be detained from days to months, depending on the case,” Homan said. “So that will give us some breathing space and give us extra beds so we can target more criminals across the country.”
The border tsar had previously called on Congress to provide more funding for detention, which would allow ICE to detain immigrants in federal custody. According to the Post, the agency released a list of more than 40 contractors in June that could help immigrant detainees “emergency purchase” space.
In addition to setting aside $45 billion in ice detention and agency funding, the fundraising bill approved by Congress this week will also provide an additional $46 billion in funding to continue building the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Where will the additional ice detention center be found?
Really clear politics reported this week that the $45 billion to be invested in ICE represents a 265% increase in its current detention budget, which would be higher than the budget of the U.S. prison system.
The burden on detainees is currently the highest since Trump first took office. In addition to providing more beds, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, said in an emailed statement to the Post that the ICE funding in the bill would allow the agency to hire another 10,000 federal agents.
Officials announced earlier this year that the agency’s immigration detention center was in a state of responsibility. The government contracts with a private prison company to operate a detention facility. Under the position, the two major companies, Corecivic and Geo Group, have been awarded nine contracts by ICE to expand detention.
The report said companies were also granted to companies that produced temporary tent structures that would be used to accommodate immigrants. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) passed a Freedom of Information Act requiring that private companies want to sign government contracts in states such as Michigan, California, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Washington.
The report of the post shows that Corecivic and Geo Group already have empty prisons in several states including Kansas (Leavenworth), Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina and Oklahoma.
The ACLU also reported that in 2022 alone, Geo Group only earned $1.05 billion in revenue from ICE contracts, while Corecivic made $552.2 million in the same year.
“We have so much activity and demand for our services throughout our 42-year history,” said Damon Hininger, CEO of Coresivich, in May’s revenue call with shareholders.
The expansion of the detention space comes as a time when more than a dozen people died in ice facilities since October, including 10 during 2025. In 2024, the ACLU report shows that between 2017 and 2021, 95% of deaths occurred between 2017 and 2021 may have been prevented or possibly blocked.
The investigation, conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), U.S. Oversight and Human Rights Doctor, analyzed the deaths of 52 people who died in ice detention during that time.