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 facilities 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."DHS MOVES ALL DETAINEES OUT OF ‘ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ’ AMID HURRICANE CONCERNSThe Department of Homeland Security purchased two migrant detention centers in California for $1.5 billion.
(Getty Images)The facilities will equip the federal government with more resources to carry out Trump's immigration policies without relying on private prison companies, as DHS says California's so-called sanctuary polices attempt to block immigration officials from using private prisons to hold migrants living in the country illegally."Unlike in states like Florida and Oklahoma, ICE can not rely on local state and county partners for detention space in California," the DHS spokesperson said."The state’s sanctuary politicians continue to push legislation to outlaw or make private prisons financially infeasible.
Now, with federal ownership of these detention centers, which are crucial to ICE’s detention network on the west coast, ICE retains the detention capacity needed to arres...