While the Department of Homeland Security publicly claims to be resetting its tactics around immigration arrests, it's been building out its capacity to house detained migrants by buying up almost a dozen warehouses. If opened, they would dramatically expand a system that’s seen more than 40 deaths since Trump took office and is facing staggering accounts of human rights abuses.

Kara speaks with three experts who’ve been tracking the Trump administration’s detention boom: <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/1101057193/ximena-bustillo">Ximena Bustillo</a>, Homeland Security Department and immigration policy correspondent for NPR; <a href="https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/people/austin-kocher">Austin Kocher</a>, a political and legal geographer and a research assistant professor at the Syracuse University who tracks immigration enforcement data on his <a href="https://austinkocher.substack.com/">Substack</a>; and <a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/authors/aaron-reichlin-melnick/">Aaron Reichlin-Melnick</a>, a lawyer and senior fellow at the American Immigration Council.
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