Detainees talk on telephones at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto on Aug. 28, 2019. From these holding centers, people are generally transferred to more long-term detention facilities, part of a broader system that the Department of Homeland Security is expanding in a historic push. “ICE is going to find the bed space,” John Gihon, a former ICE attorney and board member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told the outlet. ICE detention facilities are overly represented in Louisiana and Texas, which are both in the deeply conservative U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Some lawmakers have also pursued legislation to raise taxes on private prisons to levels intended to push them out of the state.