ICE Looking into Detention Sites in Pennsylvania, New Jersey & New York

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is contemplating constructing extra immigration detention facilities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, though the variety of immigrant detainees has significantly decreased in these areas (primarily as a result of pandemic). ICE is on the lookout for detention websites that may home as much as 900 detainees inside a 60-mile radius of its New York Metropolis, Newark, or Philadelphia subject places of work.

Request for Data

ICE issued a “Request for Data” (RFI) that famous that the brand new amenities will need to have 900 low, medium-low-, medium-high-, and high-security beds for 850 male and 50 feminine immigrant detainees. Services should be “able to offering detention, medical, and armed transport companies, together with the bodily constructions’ gear, personnel, and automobiles,” the RFI says.

The RFI for New Jersey states, “the United States Division of Homeland Safety (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is issuing this RFI to determine potential detention websites to carry prison aliens and different immigration violators in help of its public security mission beneath the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. The positioning can be in New Jersey or in Pennsylvania inside a 60-mile floor commute from the sphere workplace.”

The RFI is supposed to acquire market info, and it’s not a request for a proposal, which is a doc that solicits proposals, largely via a bidding course of. Responses to the RFI won’t be thought-about as gives and can’t be accepted by the federal government to type a binding contract.

This information causes concern to many immigrant advocates in New Jersey, who’ve spent years lobbying to finish the existence of agreements to deal with federal immigration detainees at a non-public facility in Elizabeth, and at jails in Bergen, Hudson, and Essex counties in New Jersey and Orange County in New York.

ICE Detention Websites

ICE is a federal enforcement company beneath the DHS. It takes accountability for safeguarding the US from cross-border crime and unlawful immigration that’s perceived as a menace to nationwide safety and public security. ICE is accountable for the detention of people in removing proceedings and those that are amenable to removing from the US. These detainees are housed in quite a lot of federal, state, native, and personal amenities.

At present, ICE has seven detention facilities in New York, 5 facilities in New Jersey, and 4 facilities in Pennsylvania.