State: ICE’s claims for detention center ‘border on absurd,’ court should block construction

State: ICE’s claims for detention center ‘border on absurd,’ court should block construction

An aerial view of the Williamsport warehouse the Department of Homeland Security bought for conversion into a detention center that could house up to 1,500 immigrants. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)A federal judge needs to extend his order blocking work on an immigration detention center in Washington County, because a federal government promise to pause work could “lift at any moment, in secret and without warning,” the state argued T…