On January 20, Judd Legum of Popular Information reported that ICE stopped paying third-party providers for medical care for detainees on October 3, 2025, and that it would not start even to process claims again until at least April 30, 2026. A source in the administration told Legum that some medical providers are now denying detainees medical care. In November and December, NBC News and Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration was considering “mega centers” for detaining people. “These will not be warehouses—they will be very well-structured detention facilities meeting our regular detention standards,” a DHS spokesperson wrote to Angela Kocherga and Dianne Solis of KERA News in Texas. Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.”—Notes:https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26884355/ca5detention.pdfhttps://www.keranews.org/news/2026-01-23/immigrant-deaths-intensify-scrutiny-of-detention-camp-as-el-paso-becomes-deportation-hubhttps://kfoxtv.com/news/local/family-questions-handling-of-migrants-death-at-camp-east-montanahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-warehouses-deportation-trump/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/ice-plans-to-greatly-expand-detention-capacityhttps://www.vpm.org/news/2025-08-01/acquisition-logistics-company-tuckahoe-virginia-ice-immigrant-texashttps://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/ice-kids-in-detention-numbershttps://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/children-immigration-detention-dilley-icehttps://surpriseaz.gov/1155/City-News?contentId=2a6d02c6-8bb9-4a6f-b2b4-9734b84b929ahttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazonhttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/concerns-grow-ice-plans-build-mega-warehouses-immigration-detention-rcna257454https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/liberation-of-ohrdrufhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/16/ice-detention-center-immigration-violations/https://www.nilc.org/articles/ice-is-detaining-indiscriminately-and-releasing-almost-no-one/https://www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-zone-of-interest/https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-expanding-detention-system/Bluesky:kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3meacvimvz32zazrww.bsky.social/post/3mdzbkhgq522bShare

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