The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster, according to sources and federal contracting documents.
Construction on some of the facilities is set to begin as soon as next month, one of the sources familiar with the project told CNN.
It’s the latest example of the Trump administration leveraging the US military to support its immigration enforcement efforts, stemming from the White House’s desire to dramatically ramp up nationwide immigration operations and arrest a record number of migrants.
The contracting program, which has not be
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