Philadelphia’s Federal Detention Center is set to become one of two federal facilities in the Northeast United States that will confine ICE detainees amid President Donald Trump’s push for significantly more arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants.

Leavenworth's city manager confirmed Monday the city received CoreCivic's application for an ICE detention center on Friday.

Immigrants facing civil - not criminal - charges would be sent to a medium-security federal prison... isolated from their family, advocates, and potential legal services,” the ACLU of New Hampshire said in a statement.

Philadelphia’s Federal Detention Center has started housing immigrants who were recently detained by agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. On Friday, Feb. 21, the agency confirmed to NBC10 some of the details that are outlined in an agreement between the U.