Bucks County Votes To Oppose Using Warehouses Here As I.C.E. Detention Centers

Communities protest ICE purchases of warehouses nationwide

State and local officials have found a new way to stop President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation — and so far, it is working. Elected officials and residents in communities nationwide have been largely successful in recent weeks in sabotaging the Trump administration’s efforts to buy and convert warehouses into detention centers for illegal immigrants in federal custody. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has faced pushback for the pa…

Locked Down. Rounded Up. Warehoused. The Rise of America’s Concentration Camps

“No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.”—Albert Speer, Nuremberg Trials In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial. Five years later, what was speculation is a blueprint for locking up whomever the government chooses to target. According to investigative rep…

Bucks County Votes To Oppose Using Warehouses Here As I.C.E. Detention Centers

Commissioners unanimously pass a resolution in response to talk that warehouses were being eyed in Bensalem and Middletown.

Bucks County passes resolution opposing ICE warehouses for detention

Bucks County Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution on Wednesday opposing the use of warehouses as detention centers, in response to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s recent efforts to obtain more detention space.

Bucks County commissioners unanimously oppose use of warehouses for ICE detention

“Bucks County is not a county that needs or wants a detention facility,” the county’s lone Republican commissioner said.

In Florida and beyond, warehouses could soon serve as ICE detention centers

The plan could include a $100 million project in Orlando.