DHS buys two California migrant detention centers for $1.5B to boost ICE deportation capacity

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. House Homeland Security Committee Democrats hold an unsanctioned field hearing in Newark, N.J., to investigate an ICE detention facility amid recent riots. Congressional correspondent Bill Melugin details how Democrats, unable to call sanctioned hearings, are hosting their own ‘shadow hearing’ led by Congressman Bennie Thompson. 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 centers 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 from President Donald Trump's spendi