Fitz's Stats
ICE warehouses and more mind numbing numbers
Percentage of you who know I am no more reliable than Fox or CBS News but that I err as close to the truth as I can: 100%
Arrests per day Stephen Miller has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to target: 3,000 per day
Number of states in which Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is snapping up industrial buildings to convert into detention facilities: 8
Number of protestors at proposed 40-acre detention center in Virginia: More than 500
Hours after those protests the owner halted the sale to DHS: 48 hours
Percentage of Americans opposed to holding immigrants in detention centers while their cases are decided: 64%
Number of people in DHS detention centers as of January; 73,000
Number of detainees the Trump Regime expects them to warehouse: 100,000
Percentage of ICE detainees convicted of a crime: 8%
Percentage of Presidents currently in White House convicted of a crime: 100%
Cost of expansion of detention facilities: $45 billion
Cost of arrests and deportations: $30 billion
Cost of warehouse purchased by DHS in Surprise, AZ: $70 million
Size of warehouse purchased in Surprise, Arizona: 418,000 square feet
Number of football fields that can fit inside the Surprise Warehouse: 7
Number of detainees it is intended to hold: 1500
Number of detainees the nation’s proposed 23 detention centers are intended to hold: 80,000
Number of times City of Surprise officials were notified about the warehouse purchase prior to the purchase: 0
Rough count of protestors outside Surprise City Council chambers for its Feb. 3, 2026, meeting: 1000
Percentage that will be privately owned by for-profit correctional corporations: 90%
Number of mega-corporate entities operating private prisons: 2
2nd-quarter revenues for GEO Group, ICE’s largest private prisons contractor: $636.2 million
For CoreCivic, ICE’s 2nd largest private prisons contractor: $538.2 million
Amount CoreCivic provided to the Trump-Vance inauguration committees: $800,000
Compensation for CoreCivic’s CEO Damon T. Hininger: $7.5 million
Compensation for GEO founder, and former CEO, George Zoley: $9.6 million
Donations from GEO Group to Trump-related entities: $2 million
Amount CoreCivic has spent on lobbying lawmakers since 1998: $35 million
Staff turnover rate at CoreCivic facilities in 2023: 146%
Penalties paid by CoreCivic for failure to meet contract requirements: Tens of millions
Percentage of you who’d prefer a more precise number than “Tens of millions”: A smidge
Number of forced labor lawsuits, reports of safety and violence concerns, instances of inmate deaths and medical neglect in for-profit prisons: Difficult to determine under the present regime
Percentage of you who’d prefer a more precise number than “Difficult to determine under the present regime”: A bunch
Deaths of ICE detainees occurring in GEO Group facilities in the first three weeks of 2026: 4
Percentage of deaths in ICE detention, including those in private facilities, deemed “preventable” or “possibly preventable” due to inadequate medical care between 2017 and 2021 according to an ACLU analysis of data: 95%
Amount of donations Arizona Congressman Juan Ciscomani received from employees or PACs affiliated with for-profit Prisons during the 2023-2024 cycle: $6,128
Annual revenues for GEO Group’s subsidiary, GTI, the largest provider of ground and air transportation for ICE: $40 to $50 million
Number of beds in CoreCivic run South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, where fathers are routinely separated from mothers and children: 2400
Percentage of people in ICE custody held in facilities run by for-profit companies: 90%
Amount of oversight of detention facilities by the Department of Homeland Security: 0
Number of Democratic elected officials arrested in Manhattan after they demanded access to cells in a federal building where ICE houses migrants: 11
Number of detainees in 2025 reported missing at the "Alligator Alcatraz" facility in Florida with lawyers and families unable to locate them in the system: 1,200
Number of individuals “disappeared” by ICE since January 20, 2025 whose locations were unknown: Thousands
Percentage who wish I’d go back to drawing funny cartoons: 34%
Chances of that happening: 0
Increase in the number of people with no criminal record being held in ICE detention on any given day since passage of Big Beautiful Bill: 2,450%
Percentage of all construction workers who are immigrants: 30%
Service workers who are immigrants: 24%
Immigrants gone from U.S. workforce under Trump: 1.2 million
Number of days advance notice Kristi Noem requires of official delegations before detention center visit: 7
Times in 2024 Trump referred to unauthorized immigrants as criminals: 575 times
As snakes that bite: 35 times
As coming from prisons or mental institutions: 560 times
As causing crime in sanctuary cities: 185 times
Times Trump has made false claim that mass deportations are acceptable because Dwight D Eisenhower did it: 50 times
Year lawmakers and researchers raised alarms about DHS and ICE using Neo-Nazi-linked imagery and anthems in official social media recruitment ads: 2026
Number of readers who wished I’d stop bringing up Nazis: 17
Number of American Nazis who wished I’d stop bringing up Nazis: 9,231
Number of you who are stunned to learn ICE is recruiting young thugs from gun shows, Ultimate Fight Club venues, rodeos, and martial arts centers favored by right-wing extremists: 0
Budget for recruitment effort: $100 million
Percentage who wished I’d written a humor column instead of this depressing fact festival: 18.76%
REFERENCES:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-prison-camp-threat-sparks-widespread-maga-backlash/
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-expanding-detention-system/
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?code=G7000&cycle=2024&ind=G7000&mem=Y&recipdetail=H
Good on you for pointing out in your very first sentence who really runs the Department of Homeland Security: Stephen Miller. Kristi Noem said as much after the executions of two U.S. citizens when she said she was only following Stephen Miller's orders.
One more stat for you: number of people in the current administration with a shred of humanity & compassion or ethics: 0 !!