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ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals

The Trump administration has moved to acquire industrial buildings in at least eight states. DHS bought two this month: one in Maryland for $102 million and another in Arizona for $70 million.

This month ICE officials toured this 920,000-square-foot warehouse in Kansas City, Missouri. The city council passed a resolution to try to block new detention centers in the city. (Port KC)
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One industrial building the federal government plans to overhaul into an immigrant detention center, in Roxbury, New Jersey, draws groundwater from a small town that uses nearly all of its daily limit.

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