DHS Plans to Sell 7 Warehouses Bought for ICE Detention Centers
The move follows legal challenges, inspector general scrutiny and local opposition, while four other warehouses remain slated for detention use.
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking to sell or transfer seven warehouses, including a $145 million facility in Salt Lake City, that were purchased for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has reversed the warehouse initiative championed by former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to The New York Times report on the policy shift.
- Facilities slated for divestment include locations in Romulus, Michigan; Social Circle and Flowery Branch, Georgia; Hamburg and Tremont, Pennsylvania; and Roxbury, New Jersey, alongside the Salt Lake City site.
- Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County officials filed a lawsuit earlier this month, characterizing the detention center project as 'egregiously offensive' and 'cloaked in secrecy,' citing violations of federal law.
- While 11 warehouses were originally purchased for ICE detention use, only four sites remain on schedule for that purpose as the government divests from the remaining infrastructure.
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Washington—The idea sought to turbocharge President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan. The Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) would buy more than a dozen empty warehouses across the country to massively expand its ability to detain people considered to be in an irregular situation, which in turn would trigger deportations. One year after Trump’s start of office, the agency had purchased 11 facilities at a cost of $1 billion. But in…
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ICE plans to offload Salt Lake City warehouse, report says
A planned ICE detention facility in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) In more than three months since the federal government bought a $145 million Utah warehouse for use as a large-scale immigration detention center, the most activity that’s taken place at the site has happened during protests and in a back lot borrowed by a neighboring business for storage. Now the Department of Homela…
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Several communities across the country are celebrating after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it was withdrawing plans for seven immigration detention centers. The move comes after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin took over after Kristi Noem’s firing. ICE had previously said it was purchasing more than a dozen empty warehouses to expand its capacity to detain people it said were illegally in the country. E…
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