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Image: CBP. Illustration: Michael Wriston.U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to collect immigration debt from people its sister agency, ICE, has deported. Before bidding on the overseas collection contract closed on Friday, companies asked the agenc

Photo: Towfiqu Barbhuiya (Unsplash). Logo: DHS. Illustration: Michael WristonU.S. Customs and Border Protection is looking to hire a private company to find people the United States has already deported and collect unpaid immigration fines from them in Me

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted a solicitation on Thursday for a construction program worth up to $10 billion, a move to build and expand detention space on land the agency owns rather than lease it.The solicitation begins with eight proje

Updated July 11, 2026, at 9:53 a.m. ET to include a statement from David Broderick, legal counsel for Project NINJA.The Department of Homeland Security told a federal court Friday evening that it is reconsidering its decision to abandon plans for an immig

Image: ICEU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked private contractors Friday morning for at least 5,500 new detention beds across four regions of the country, in facilities that must start holding detainees within 30 days of a contract award. The a

Photo: SCFC2011 via Wikimedia Commons. Logo: DHS. Illustration: Michael WristonU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to award its own construction contract to expand the detention campuses it owns - and possibly to build new ones - restoring much

Independent researcher and writer with a focus on immigration enforcement and federal procurement. Views are my own.

Bottom Line Up FrontCBP awards record-setting border wall contract: Customs and Border Protection issued what appears to be the largest border wall construction award in its history to Fisher Sand & Gravel - a whopping $2.5 billion for the Big Bend Texas

Earlier this week, I got the chance to speak about the Trump administration's failed warehouses-as-immigration-camps scheme with over on Legal AF. We spoke at length about why the plan fell apart, what comes next - and, in no small part, about the work th

The July 1 filing ties a no-bid title and escrow contract with First American to property purchases at three existing ICE detention sites but does not say what land is being bought or from whom.