By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Federal immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 billion to boost detention capacity to 92,600 beds, a document released Friday shows, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly purchases warehouses to turn into detention and processing facilities. Related Articles Trump’s Harvard move reflects one of his go-to tactics: Lawsuits Judge gives US 2 weeks to retrieve student deported to Honduras while traveling for Thanksgiving A judge says she’ll rule that the US still cannot force states to provide data on SNAP recipients Boston taxpayers not footing bill to send Seattle kids to World Cup: Mayor Wu’s office Gifts and soup from ‘Uncle Jeffrey’: The Epstein ties that ended Kathy Ruemmler’s run at Goldman Republican New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte posted the document online amid tension over ICE’s plans to convert a warehouse in Merrimack into a 500-bed processing center. It said ICE plans 16 regional processing centers with a population of 1,000 to 1,500 detainees, whose stays would average three to seven days. Another eight large-scale detention centers would be capable of housing 7,000 to 10,000 detainees for periods averaging less than 60 days. The document also refers to the acquisition of 10 existing “turnkey” facilities. Plans call for all of them to be up and running by November as immigration officials roll out a massive $45 billion expansion of detention facilities financed by President Donald Trump’s recent tax-cutting law. More than 75,000 immigrants were being detained by ICE as of mid-January, up from 40,000 when Trump took…
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