In red states and blue states, in suburbs and cities and rural communities, officials from the Department of Homeland Security are scouting real estate, like outside Orlando, where a local reporter for WFTV was tipped off to a tour.

Now you can see it's just a massive vacant warehouse. Around 1130, we saw several federal officials,

as well as contractors arrive here. And in Kansas City, where KSHB 41 was on the scene.

We had received this tip that ICE agents were going to be out here touring a facility. We didn't

know where, but then we saw a bunch of cars out here in the parking lot. Immigration and customs

enforcement wants to significantly expand its detention capacity

to help support President Trump's mass deportation agenda.

Here is how White House borders are.

Tom Homan put it last year.

With us hiring at a massive rate, more boots on the ground, we're arresting more criminals,

which means we need more

bets.

It's not just criminals, though.

For decades, administrations of both parties allowed many immigrants out on bond while their

cases moved through the immigration court system.

If they had longstanding ties to the community and no criminal record, they were candidates

for release.

The Trump administration implemented a new policy last summer that mandates detention for

virtually any immigrant arrested by ICE without legal status.

That has meant the number of immigrants in ICE custody has soared from roughly 40,000 at the start of Trump's term to roughly 70,000 now.

And the push to build, expand, and retrofit more facilities to detain these immigrants has ignited fierce and often bipartisan opposition.

A majority of these locations wouldn't pass for any other venue, even possibly for a homeless

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