Immigrant Detention Beds May Be Maxed Out As Trump Moves To Deport 'millions And Millions'

President Donald Trump's inauguration-day executive orders and promises of mass deportations of "millions and millions" of people will hinge on securing money for detention centers.

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be. However, an estimated 11.7 million people are living in the U.S. illegally, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently has the budget to detain only about 41,000 people.

The government would need additional space to hold people while they are processed and arrangements are made to remove them, sometimes by plane. The Department of Homeland Security estimates the daily cost for a bed for one adult is about 165.

Just one piece of Trump's plan , a bill known as the Laken Riley Act that Congress has passed, would require at least 26.9 billion to ramp up capacity at immigrant detention facilities to add 110,000 beds, according to a recent memo from DHS.

That bill - named after a Georgia nursing student whose murder by a Venezuelan man last year became a rallying cry for Trump's White House campaign - expands requirements for immigration authorities to detain anyone in the country illegally who is accused of theft and violent crimes.