This one needs a little context as the headline isn’t exactly clear:
“S. 5, the “Laken Riley Act,” which requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.”
Trump also stated his intention when signing the law to house the worst offenders at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stating that we have 30,000 beds there ready to go.
It’s held less than 800 people since 2002 (that we know of). That’s a massive scale-up. I actually don’t know if any existing prison can hold that many people, that’s an incredible number.
Just looked it up, Rikers holds a maximum of 15,000 spread over 40 acres. And there is a steady flow of complaints about that prison system specifically. I’m too horrified to imagine what conditions would be for twice that number of prisoners.