The Growth of DHS Detention Camps

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 17

Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker staff writer and the author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Penguin Press, 2024), talks about the scale of the U.S. immigrant detention program, health and safety issues and expansion plans, following the firing of DHS Sec. Kristi Noem.

=> "Trump’s Mass-Detention Campaign" (The New Yorker, March 15, 2026)

photo: A warehouse purchased by the Department of Homeland Security that is slated to become an immigration detention facility is seen on March 10, 2026 in Williamsport, Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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