ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US

Despite protests in small towns and cities across the US, the Trump administration is pushing ahead with the purchase of warehouses it plans to convert into immigration jails in what could be the largest expansion of such detention capacity in US history.

The cost for acquiring two warehouses alone was $172 million. A third in El Paso, Texas, could be among the largest jails of any kind in the country if completed as envisioned, with 8,500 beds. The deals mark the latest turn in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to use as many as 23 warehouses for detaining thousands of immigrants arrested by federal agents in Minneapolis and other cities. Those aggressive enforcement actions have ignited clashes with protesters and led to agents killing two US citizens...

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RSK: Very interesting article. It is not just people being NIMBYS either. Many considerations here when you put 9,000 detainees in a city of 5,000. Not just infrastructure but food,medical supplies and health care... and on and on.