Delaney Hall once held immigrants detained before deportation and could do so again if prison company The Geo Group and ICE have their way.

ICE set up a “temporary operations center, staging area and a temporary holding location for the receiving, holding and processing” of detainees, military officials said in the

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld rulings requiring private prison operator GEO Group to pay more than $23 million to the state of Washington and hundreds of immigrant detainees who were paid $1 a day to participate in a work program.

For years, immigration detention centers run by Geo Group and CoreCivic have been plagued by allegations of dangerous conditions, negligence and mismanagement, which the companies deny. And they’re about to get a massive influx of new detainees from President Trump’s mass deportation effort.

In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter Jr. of the Central District of California wrote that “the ban on new detainee intakes at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center

The for-profit company operating the facility has invested $70 million to "meet the anticipated requirements" of federal immigration enforcement under Donald Trump.

Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda.

Trump's action comes after signals from private prison corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic that they expected such a reversal.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka confirmed in a statement that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a business establishment in the city.

Immigrant Solidarity DuPage wants community members to know it has their back. As the long-promised federal immigration blitz on Chicago seemed to get underway Sunday, the Wheaton-based nonprofit

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be.

"The tide has turned and the people have voted to enforce our immigration laws. Trump won his reelection based on the economy and immigration,” said Greg Serbon.