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cliffside

(1,617 posts)
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 12:23 AM 22 hrs ago

ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals

Source: WaPo

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"The Trump administration has moved to acquire industrial buildings in at least eight states. DHS bought two this month: one in Maryland for $102 million and another in Arizona for $70 million.

... ICE expects to hold between 1,500 and 10,000 detainees in each of these 23 warehouses at a time, according to documents and interviews. But some experts have warned that it will be difficult to bring the industrial buildings up to federal standards for detention facilities in the short time before ICE plans to begin housing people in them.

The expansion of ICE’s detention system would help fulfill President Donald Trump’s goal of deporting millions of people by creating a hub-and-spoke model capable of booking migrants into processing centers for a few weeks and then transporting them to large-scale facilities where they would await deportation.

Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, declined to answer questions about specific properties, or about whether they can be converted to meet standards, but said the agency “has new funding to expand detention space to keep these criminals off American streets before they are removed for good from our communities.”



Read more: https://wapo.st/49ZKA7W

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ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals (Original Post) cliffside 22 hrs ago OP
Perhaps they could build some gas chambers or something BWdem4life 22 hrs ago #1
Who says they haven't. n/t flvegan 21 hrs ago #2
Those are placed in the down wind corner of the warehouse. Hope22 14 hrs ago #7
It reads so sterile, dry, and statistical. I'm getting a shivering Final Solution vibe out of this. NBachers 21 hrs ago #3
Same in the Kansas City area, but ... rustysgurl 20 hrs ago #4
Remember how the reich-wingers were apoplectic when President Obama markodochartaigh 20 hrs ago #5
Running around in circles with their hair on fire, waving their hands in the air & screeching "JADE HELM! JADE HELM!1!" NBachers 3 hrs ago #11
CONCENTRATION CAMPS BaronChocula 19 hrs ago #6
Concentration Camps. There, I said it again. Thanks. twodogsbarking 14 hrs ago #8
And, that is all they are ever going to be. OldBaldy1701E 13 hrs ago #9
My BFF EuterpeThelo 12 hrs ago #10

Hope22

(4,527 posts)
7. Those are placed in the down wind corner of the warehouse.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 08:09 AM
14 hrs ago

Cuts down on transportation costs…..I guess there is a warehouse in everyone’s future now. Quite a contrast to a ballroom!

NBachers

(19,256 posts)
3. It reads so sterile, dry, and statistical. I'm getting a shivering Final Solution vibe out of this.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 01:50 AM
21 hrs ago

rustysgurl

(1,096 posts)
4. Same in the Kansas City area, but ...
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:07 AM
20 hrs ago

On January 15, 2026 the Kansas City Council approved a five-year moratorium on the establishment of new, non-municipal detention centers, directly aimed at blocking the ICE project.

Someone thought ahead!

markodochartaigh

(5,190 posts)
5. Remember how the reich-wingers were apoplectic when President Obama
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:44 AM
20 hrs ago

was in office over his supposed plans to use closed Walmarts as detention centers? Sometimes you have to wait awhile, but sooner or later Republicans will do every evil thing that they accused Democratic politicians of doing.

NBachers

(19,256 posts)
11. Running around in circles with their hair on fire, waving their hands in the air & screeching "JADE HELM! JADE HELM!1!"
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 07:35 PM
3 hrs ago

OldBaldy1701E

(10,560 posts)
9. And, that is all they are ever going to be.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 09:13 AM
13 hrs ago

They can babble all that they want.

These are concentration camps.

They are for inhuman and inhumane purposes.

If we believe any aspect of our high and mighty words in our founding documents, we should be marching on these sites to make sure that they cannot be used for this purpose.

Of course, we should be doing a lot of things...

EuterpeThelo

(249 posts)
10. My BFF
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 10:30 AM
12 hrs ago

lives just a mile and a half away from the one they're about to build in Arizona. This is beyond sickening. Never again, my arse.

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