The Trump administration's aggressive anti-immigration agenda has sparked fierce opposition in cities where federal agents conduct raids. Plans to acquire warehouses as detention centers—or concentration camp—for immigrants are now raising concerns about human rights abuses.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43230217

Feb. 13, 2026

President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as immigrant detention centers.

US immigration and Customs Enforcement documents that were provided to Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire—one of the states where ICE aims to acquire a building and retrofit it to house at least 1,000 people at a time—show that the administration plans to spend $38.3 billion on its mass detention plan.

  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Part of my job includes sitting in on meetings of land use boards, and the number of applications for warehouses, starting back around 2020, was astonishing. And yeah, we saw a major uptick in online sales and so it was an obvious reaction to that, but the conspiracy theorist inside me is bristling thinking that somehow this was all part of some CIA plot to have these places set up and ready to go.

    Even during the pendency of some of these hearings, folks would bring out statistics from updated treatises suggesting warehouse propagation was oversaturated and that it didn’t make sense to keep building them, but keep building they did. That’s the part that really tips my tinfoil hat.