News on ICE Warehouses
May 5: No Concentration Camps California and No Concentration Camps Colorado held combined protests at current and proposed ICE detention facilities in both states. This was the first event for the newly organized CA organization modelled after the CO example.
May 5: The organizational website GTFOICE.org associated with Miles Taylor was initially reported as being hacked and compromising people’s personal data who had signed up. Later analysis suggests a lack of basic security measures to protect the website data. Nearly 18,000 people signed up giving names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and zip codes in exchange for what they believed would be a playbook or a connection to a local group.
May 6: Project Salt Box has created a litigation tracker for ICE warehouses.
ICE Warehouse Tracker › Warehouse Litigation
May 6: The GEO Group Q1 Earnings Call highlighted several key points. CEO George Zoley mentioned that ICE may be buying 10 existing detention facilities. Zoley also said the feds appear to be weighing the cost and complexity of purchasing existing detention facilities against converting warehouses. GEO Group houses 1/3 of detainees nationwide. Their 1st Qtr revenue was $705.2M (up 17%). Geo Group Inc (The) REIT (GEO) Q1 FY2026 earnings call transcript
May 6: Project Salt Box reported on three important parts of the detention holding system. First, warehouses are not moving forward as the fight now is in the courts. With the administration still wanting to achieve mass deportation numbers, bed space appears now to be shifting to focusing on buying 10 privately owned contractor facilities (a Salt Box anonymous source lists 8 locations in the article) and an increasing reliance on 287 agreements which are expanding at astonishing rates. Another ICE insider has said that warehouses have not been abandoned but officials are assessing how to proceed. (“As Trump Officials Vow Deportation Surge, ICE Searches for Detention Space”)
May 6: The San Elizario City Council passed two resolutions restricting DHS in moving forward with the ICE warehouse in Socorro. The first resolution supports the El Paso County Emergency Services District #2 in limiting or denying permits for emergency services to the detention centers. The second one supports the water district in denying water to the ICE warehouse.
May 6: There was a contractual action on Surprise AZ revoking the stop work order. Details on SAM.gov.
May 7: Media articles begin coverage on the impending deployment of ICE into more than forty states. More than 300+ ICE agents will be deployed throughout the country apparently to aid mass deportation efforts. The Request for Quote (RFQ) was released on Sam.gov for private office space rental/workstations for ICE personnel with a due date of May 19th. This requirement is for a small business set aside, firm-fixed price contract with a 12-month duration.
May 8: NoCCUS.org announced partnership with NILC.org (National Immigration Law Center). Currently we are working on stopping additional ICE funding.
May 13: NoCCUS.org Zoom meeting to discuss possible action against the RFQ: private office space rental/workstations for ICE personnel.
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