ICE moving forward with warehouse detention plan despite lawsuits, probe
ICE is finalizing retrofit and operations contracts for warehouse detention sites as federal investigators review the purchases and a judge keeps construction on hold.
- The Department of Homeland Security is pressing ahead with plans to transform industrial warehouses into detention centers, finalizing contracts to retrofit sites in San Antonio, near El Paso, and near Hagerstown, Maryland, by early 2027.
- Investigating cost-effectiveness, the DHS Office of Inspector General announced Thursday it is reviewing whether ICE purchased properties appropriately, following reports that DHS paid more than $66 million for a San Antonio warehouse appraised at $37 million.
- Last month, a Baltimore judge issued a temporary injunction blocking construction at the Hagerstown facility, citing insufficient facilities for the 1,500-person capacity while local officials warned of community disruption.
- DHS signed a $113 million build-out and operations contract in March with KVG, a defense contractor with no experience overseeing detention centers, to work on the Maryland facility.
- Critics argue the expansion mirrors operational failures at Camp East Montana, which accumulated 60 federal code violations within its first 50 days of operation, raising ongoing safety concerns.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is continuing efforts to transform warehouses into large-scale immigration detention centers despite a growing number of politically motivated lawsuits. […] Source
Across the United States, the Trump administration is acquiring industrial warehouses where it intends to hold tens of thousands of detained immigrants. This plan is cruel and inhumane. It is also a public health disaster in the making. The warehouses and their sewage systems were never designed to accommodate so many people. In one town in Maryland, ICE plans to convert a facility built with only four toilets to house 1,500 detainees, and it ha…
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