The Department of Homeland Security has purchased three immigration detention facilities in Southern California from GEO Group for $950 million, adding 2,644 beds to facilities owned by the federal government.

GEO announced the transaction Monday, saying the sale includes Adelanto East, Adelanto West and the Desert View Annex. Adelanto East and West make up the 1,940-bed Adelanto ICE Processing Center, while the Desert View Annex provides another 704 beds.

The acquisition is the latest in a series of major detention-facility purchases by the Trump administration as it expands the infrastructure available to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The federal government previously purchased four facilities from CoreCivic for more than $2.2 billion. Those acquisitions included the 1,600-bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Minnesota and the 1,033-bed Midwest Regional Reception Center in Kansas, as well as the California City Detention Facility and Otay Mesa Detention Center.

The federal government is expected to retain private operators at the facilities after taking ownership. Under the Adelanto agreement, GEO will continue operating the properties through its existing ICE contract.

That contract currently runs through Dec. 19, 2029, with a five-year option that could extend it through Dec. 19, 2034.

The purchases are backed by billions of dollars in funding Congress approved for immigration detention through President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The legislation provided $45 billion for immigration detention.

DHS has previously said acquiring detention properties would help protect ICE’s detention network from state and local efforts to restrict the use of privately operated immigration facilities.

GEO said Monday that it intends to continue supporting the administration's immigration enforcement efforts while shifting capital toward other priorities, including share repurchases.

“We are pleased with the completion of these important asset sales to the U.S. federal government, and we look forward to continuing to provide high-quality secure support services under our existing long-term contracts with ICE,” GEO Chairman, CEO and founder George C. Zoley said.

“We are proud of our 40-year public-private partnership with ICE, and we stand ready to continue to assist the federal government in meeting its immigration enforcement priorities,” Zoley added.

GEO is also pursuing potential sales of additional detention facilities to ICE, although the company said those transactions would depend on reaching agreements on price and maintaining long-term operating contracts. No final agreements or firm closing dates have been established for those properties.

During an August shareholder call, Zoley said ICE was considering purchasing more than 10 facilities, with the number potentially increasing. He emphasized that GEO views ownership of the physical facilities separately from the business of operating them.

“We are pursuing a potential sale of the buildings, but we want to retain the business,” Zoley told shareholders.