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ICE is spending billions to expand its detention system

In the past week, the federal government has signed contracts worth billions of dollars to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers.

ICE is also looking into what it calls mobile detention facilities.

NPR’s Jasmine Garsd reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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