ICE planning to give away – or sell – 7 migrant centers it bought for $700M: report
The move follows legal challenges, inspector general scrutiny and local opposition, while four other warehouses remain slated for detention use.
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking to sell or transfer seven warehouses, including a $145 million facility in Salt Lake City, that were purchased for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has reversed the warehouse initiative championed by former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to The New York Times report on the policy shift.
- Facilities slated for divestment include locations in Romulus, Michigan; Social Circle and Flowery Branch, Georgia; Hamburg and Tremont, Pennsylvania; and Roxbury, New Jersey, alongside the Salt Lake City site.
- Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County officials filed a lawsuit earlier this month, characterizing the detention center project as 'egregiously offensive' and 'cloaked in secrecy,' citing violations of federal law.
- While 11 warehouses were originally purchased for ICE detention use, only four sites remain on schedule for that purpose as the government divests from the remaining infrastructure.
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Salt Lake TribuneICE spent $700 million on 7 warehouses. Now it wants to get rid of them.
ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
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