ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
Newly arrested detainees would be booked into processing sites for a few weeks before being funneled into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, the plans show. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to renovate industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time, according to a draft solicitation from The Washington Post. The warehouses would be located near major logistics hubs in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. The plan involves a deliberate feeder system to transfer detainees from processing sites to warehouses that hold up to 1,500 people each, rather than moving them around the country to other locations. The draft solicitation is not final and is subject to changes, ICE plans to share it with private detention companies to gauge interest and refine the plan. The warehouse plan is part of the administration's strategy to expedite deportations by using warehouses as detention centers. Critics argue that concentrating detainees in warehouses would create logistical issues as they are designed for storage and shipping, not human habitation. The majority of the warehouses are in towns, counties and states led by Republicans.
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The large warehouses would be located close to major logistics hubs in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. Sixteen smaller warehouses would hold up to 1,500 people each.
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