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 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