Local pushback complicates Trump's detention expansion

The Trump administration aims to rapidly expand immigrant detention by purchasing up to 34 facilities and boosting capacity to about 92,600 beds by year’s end at an estimated $38.3 billion, but local officials across several states are pushing back over communication gaps, infrastructure costs, and environmental concerns. Nine facilities have already been bought, while towns like Roxbury (NJ), Orange County (NY), and Social Circle (GA) voice opposition and a wave of lawsuits and political pressure from Democrats and some Republicans threatens the plan, turning the deportation push into a hyperlocal fight even as the White House says it will work with governors and communities to proceed.