DHS Plans to Sell 7 Warehouses Bought for ICE Detention Centers
The move follows legal challenges, inspector general scrutiny and local opposition, while four other warehouses remain slated for detention use.
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking to sell or transfer seven warehouses, including a $145 million facility in Salt Lake City, that were purchased for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has reversed the warehouse initiative championed by former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to The New York Times report on the policy shift.
- Facilities slated for divestment include locations in Romulus, Michigan; Social Circle and Flowery Branch, Georgia; Hamburg and Tremont, Pennsylvania; and Roxbury, New Jersey, alongside the Salt Lake City site.
- Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County officials filed a lawsuit earlier this month, characterizing the detention center project as 'egregiously offensive' and 'cloaked in secrecy,' citing violations of federal law.
- While 11 warehouses were originally purchased for ICE detention use, only four sites remain on schedule for that purpose as the government divests from the remaining infrastructure.
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ICE abandons plan to convert warehouses into detention centers for migrants
The Trump administration has begun dismantling one of the most ambitious initiatives designed to support its mass deportation agenda. A report by The New York Times revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to sell or transfer to other federal agencies seven of the 11 industrial warehouses it purchased over the past year to convert into immigrant detention centers. The decision marks a significant reversal for a project that …
DHS scraps $700M migrant detention plan
The Department of Homeland Security reportedly is planning to jettison seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright. The move marks a significant retreat from a high-profile immigration detention expansion plan launched under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to multiple reports....
DHS to Scrap Use of Seven Warehouses for Detention Centers
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to scrap plans to use seven warehouses purchased as part of $38 billion program under then-Secretary Kristi Noem to flip them into large-scale immigration-detention centers, according to a person familiar with the decision.
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Salt Lake TribuneICE spent $700 million on 7 warehouses. Now it wants to get rid of them.
ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
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