ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America
ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across AmericaThe New Republic
And that’s just the cost to purchase the buildings—ICE also has to pay to turn them into jails with bathrooms, beds, dining, and recreation facilities. A third warehouse purchase in El Paso, Texas, could be one of the largest jails in the United States when completed, housing 8,500 beds.
ICE plans to use up to 23 warehouses around the country to detain immigrants in even more cities, including in Minnesota, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The new strategy is a shift for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, which has been relying on many tent camps, such as the notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” in south Florida.
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ICE’s warehouse plan is full of flaws, but the chief obstacle is the opposition from local residents, which only grows with every negative ICE headline. Will this mega network of warehouse jails get built, and will they even be safe to house thousands of people, including possibly U.S. citizens?
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Contractors have been buying up used passenger planes. Probably for two purposes: one, to ship off detainees to foreign countries bribed to accept detainees; and two, a network of camps near transport hubs, for shuffling detainees around so they get “lost in the system” for the purpose of evading judicial orders.
Please read this reply that I just wrote to PatSeg:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20988678
Stay encouraged, Cirsium.
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But don't expect quality work from the robber baron contractors. The old playbook is still relevant and they are so fu>kn lazy they will probably plan to have the first round of captives do all the labor. They better be ready for sabotage is all I've got to say.
Thanks for the reply, PCI.
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