Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to sell huge warehouses it bought earlier this year with the intention of turning them into massive detention facilities, according to reporting by NBC News.
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ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, are considering selling “several” of its eleven warehouses purchased for more than $38 million this year, two DHS officials told NBC News.
Some of the warehouses were expected to hold as many as 8,000 immigrants each, DHS officials told NBC News. Former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem planned to build out enough detention centers to incarcerate 100,000 immigrants at a time, in addition to existing facilities, NBC noted.
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The warehouses haven’t been put on the market as the Trump administration hasn’t made a final decision yet on whether to sell them, DHS officials told NBC News.
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