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June 25, 2026

Federal officials plan to offload some warehouses purchased for immigrant detention

  • The government has spent over $1 billion on warehouses in 11 cities
    • By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, RYAN FOLEY and REBECCA SANTANA
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Mike Stewart, file [enlarge]
    A newly built warehouse is shown here in February in Social Circle, Ga. The city has received notification that the government is no longer pursuing an ICE detention facility there.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single site, jettisoning a key piece of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's $38 billion plan to rapidly expand detention capacity this year.


     
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