DHS buys two California migrant detention centers for $1.5B to boost ICE deportation capacity

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) purchased two migrant detention centers in California for $1.5 billion, the agency confirmed to Fox News Digital.

The sale of the 2,560-bed California City Detention Facility and the 1,994-bed Otay Mesa Detention Center, two of the largest immigrant detention centers in the Golden State, closed earlier this month, according to a press release from Tennessee-based CoreCivic, the private prison company that sold the facilities.

DHS said it used funds from President Donald Trump's spending bill signed last summer to purchase the facilities as the administration seeks to continue the president's mass deportation agenda.

"The Department of Homeland Security purchased the California City Detention Facility and the Otay Mesa Detention Center," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "This purchase was made possible by President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill that allowed ICE to expand detention space to fulfill the president’s promise of mass deportations."

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