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cliffside

(1,641 posts)
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 12:23 AM Jan 31

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 Jan 31 OP
Perhaps they could build some gas chambers or something BWdem4life Jan 31 #1
Who says they haven't. n/t flvegan Jan 31 #2
Those are placed in the down wind corner of the warehouse. Hope22 Jan 31 #7
It reads so sterile, dry, and statistical. I'm getting a shivering Final Solution vibe out of this. NBachers Jan 31 #3
Same in the Kansas City area, but ... rustysgurl Jan 31 #4
We havea good mayor here in KCMO. nt leftyladyfrommo Feb 1 #14
Wasn't he on Margaret Brennan's show this morning? littlemissmartypants Feb 1 #16
Remember how the reich-wingers were apoplectic when President Obama markodochartaigh Jan 31 #5
Running around in circles with their hair on fire, waving their hands in the air & screeching "JADE HELM! JADE HELM!1!" NBachers Jan 31 #11
CONCENTRATION CAMPS BaronChocula Jan 31 #6
Concentration Camps. There, I said it again. Thanks. twodogsbarking Jan 31 #8
And, that is all they are ever going to be. OldBaldy1701E Jan 31 #9
My BFF EuterpeThelo Jan 31 #10
One is in the DMV Maggiemayhem Feb 1 #12
All of the oligarchs, Trump + Cabinet members, kiddie diddling Supremes and travelingthrulife Feb 1 #13
No money to feed the hungry, but tons to buy ICE concentration camps. ificandream Feb 1 #15
I learned this morning that they are specifically looking at real-estate close to train lines. No shit. littlemissmartypants Feb 1 #17
Rachel Maddow is covering this story tonight. nt cliffside Feb 2 #18

Hope22

(4,604 posts)
7. Those are placed in the down wind corner of the warehouse.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 08:09 AM
Jan 31

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

NBachers

(19,331 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
Jan 31

rustysgurl

(1,097 posts)
4. Same in the Kansas City area, but ...
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:07 AM
Jan 31

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

(5,317 posts)
5. Remember how the reich-wingers were apoplectic when President Obama
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:44 AM
Jan 31

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

(19,331 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
Jan 31

OldBaldy1701E

(10,833 posts)
9. And, that is all they are ever going to be.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 09:13 AM
Jan 31

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

(283 posts)
10. My BFF
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 10:30 AM
Jan 31

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.

travelingthrulife

(4,953 posts)
13. All of the oligarchs, Trump + Cabinet members, kiddie diddling Supremes and
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 10:23 AM
Feb 1

GOP staff, enabling media and GOP Congress should fit nicely in there for the ongoing conspiracy to overthrow our government.

littlemissmartypants

(32,806 posts)
17. I learned this morning that they are specifically looking at real-estate close to train lines. No shit.
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 03:42 PM
Feb 1

Gawd All Mighty !!

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