"The Obama administration is expected on Tuesday to unveil an outline of sweeping changes for the nation's immigration-detention system, saying it will decide whom to lock up and for how long based on the danger and flight risk posed by detainees," The Wall Street Journal writes.

The Associated Press adds that "illegal immigrants awaiting deportation would be confined according to the risk they may pose under a new plan being proposed by the Homeland Security secretary."

And according to The New York Times, the administration "is looking to convert hotels and nursing homes into immigration detention centers and to build two model detention centers from scratch as it tries to transform the way the government holds people it is seeking to deport."

The changes are expected to add details to Homeland Security's August announcement that it planned to "overhaul the immigration detention system."