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Documents obtained by the Post show ICE plans to renovate warehouses to detain over 80,000 immigrants across the country.
STAFFORD, Va. — ICE plans on renovating warehouses to hold more than 80,000 detainees across the U.S., the Washington Post reported Wednesday morning. One of those warehouses is in Stafford, Virginia.
According to documents obtained by the Post, the plan is to send arrested immigrants to smaller processing sites for a few weeks before they’re sent to one of seven large-scale warehouses holding between 5,000 and 10,000 people. That includes the one planned in Stafford, plus more in Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. There will also be 16 more warehouses holding up to 1,500 people, the Post reported.
The warehouses would hold people before deportation.
Stafford is one of two Democratic-run cities where a warehouse is planned. County Supervisor Pamela Yeung emailed a statement to the Post that Stafford’s zoning laws and building codes would apply to a facility rented by ICE.
“Immigration policy is federal, but its impacts are local,” Yeung wrote in the statement. “Any facility of this scale would affect infrastructure, public safety, and social services.”
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