JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - ICE plans to open four detention facilities across the U.S. with enough capacity for 5,500 detainees
The request calls for 1,500 beds near Denver, 1,500 near Seattle, 700 near Miami, and 1,800 in Pennsylvania.
AXIOS (Brittany Gibson) - Scoop: ICE detention numbers slip
ICE has empty detention bed space and the average daily number of detainees has slid to 58,000, Axios has learned from two sources familiar with the data. Why it matters: ICE went on a $38 billion buying spree to rapidly expand the number of available beds. But after its detention population more than doubled in President Trump's first year in office, the numbers have gone in the other direction. - Trump backed off aggressive city-wide enforcement strategies following the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, and the detention population — and therefore the number of arrests — dipped. - Agency data shows ICE reached a peak of nearly 72,000 migrants in custody in January. - ICE hasn't released official detention statistics…