Former President Joe Biden did his worst to undo the gains made against illegal immigration by President Donald Trump in his first term, including shutting down detention facilities for criminal illegal aliens awaiting deportation.

One of those Biden shutdowns has now been reversed after the Trump administration reached an agreement with the private company that owns and runs a 1,800-bed detention facility in Michigan, according to Breitbart.

Per an unnamed source, this reversal is likely the first of many as the Trump administration seeks to reopen other detention facilities that were shuttered by the prior administration.

Shuttered migrant detention facility set to reopen in Michigan

According to a Thursday press release, a Florida-based company known as The GEO Group, which owns and operates 99 secure detention facilities with an estimated 79,000 beds around the world, including facilities that are idled or under construction, announced it had reached a deal with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reopen a shuttered 1,800-bed facility in Baldwin, Michigan.

A long-term contract is expected to be finalized in the coming months, which will provide GEO with approximately $70 million in annual revenue in exchange for providing ICE exclusive use of the North Lake Facility plus standard offerings of "security, maintenance, and food services, as well as access to recreational amenities, medical care, and legal counsel" for detainees.

"We expect that our company-owned North Lake Facility in Michigan will play an important role in helping meet the need for increased federal immigration processing center bedspace," GEO Executive Chairman George Zoley said.

He added, "We are proud of our 40-year public-private partnership with ICE, and we stand ready to continue to help the federal government meet its expanded immigration enforcement priorities."

Biden ordered all private for-profit prisons shut down

The Detroit News reported that the North Lake Facility was opened during President Trump's first term and was in operation from 2019 until 2022, during which it typically housed illegal aliens charged with felony crimes, along with other detainees awaiting deportation.

That facility, along with several others, was shuttered in 2022 following an executive order from then-President Biden that directed the federal Bureau of Prisons to cancel or not renew expiring contracts with privately owned for-profit prisons.

The outlet noted that GEO anticipates "immediate activation" of the North Lake Facility, and further reported that a senior ICE official recently revealed that the administration is searching for additional bed space across the country to accommodate the rapidly growing number of illegal alien detainees that have been taken into custody.

Trump admin needs millions more detention beds

Breitbart reported that the claim that the Trump administration was seeking to reopen shuttered detention facilities to have more beds for illegal alien detainees was confirmed by National Immigration Center for Enforcement President RJ Hauman, who suggested that the administration would likely need additional funding from Congress to make that happen.

"The clock is ticking on funding," he explained. "ICE isn’t just struggling to deliver for the safety, security, and will of the American people by launching and sustaining a mass deportation effort -- current accounts are running dry."

"Trump’s electoral mandate couldn’t have been clearer; it is time for congressional Republicans to accelerate to Trump time, or they’ll soon own the next preventable tragedy at the hands of a criminal illegal alien," Hauman added.

The outlet observed that the administration needs as many detention beds as it can get, as it is estimated that there are still nearly 8 million illegal aliens on the "non-detained docket," meaning suspected of being in the country but not in federal custody, of which around 1.4 million already have final deportation orders filed against them.