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ICE Barbie Humiliated in $700M U-Turn Fiasco
The Daily Beast • • nation
Key Points:
- The Department of Homeland Security is abandoning Kristi Noem’s policy of using seven warehouses, purchased for over $700 million, as migrant detention sites, opting to sell or repurpose them instead.
- These warehouses were initially intended to support Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown by creating a government-controlled detention network to hold criminal migrants, but statistics show most detainees lack criminal convictions.
- The reversal comes under Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who has expressed skepticism about the warehouse strategy and favors a lower-key enforcement approach.
- Local opposition, high costs, environmental lawsuits, and an internal investigation contributed to the unraveling of Noem’s plan, with several sites facing significant legal and community pushback.
- Despite the retreat from these warehouses, ICE continues to operate other detention facilities and plans to purchase space from private prison operators, but the reduction in detention capacity raises doubts about meeting deportation targets.
