“Closing a Detention Center Is Rarely a Single Strike. It’s a Siege.”

The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” last year

allocated $45 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build and

run camps to lock up immigrants—potentially more than 100,000 people on any given day. From

Alligator Alcatraz to the Speedway Slammer, ICE camps (or camps run by

for-profit corporations on behalf of ICE) have become a defining image of the