ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/ice-warehouses-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rFA.fL9W.rtPlGeLetk_K

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, reversing course on a signature initiative.

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Xanthobilly@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 57d (5 replies)

💯they will sell to Trump goons for a fraction of the price. Grifters.

FullPenguin@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 57d (1 reply)

They probably bought them from Trumpers for an inflated price.

ooterness@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 57d

It's the circle of grift.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 57d

They will probably sell them to private prison companies.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 57d

That was probably the plan before they were ever built.

billwashere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d

It’s always about the grift.

daannii@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 57d

Sell to trump buddies then pay rental fees to use them.

Arrandee@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 57d (1 reply)

Best I can do is $20

Blibly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 57d

Counteroffer: this box of molotovs

VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 57d

Destroy them. Done.

They are modern day concentration camps.

santa@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 57d

That should pay for the gaudy ballroom!

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 57d (1 reply)

Hopefully, they aren't installing more gas chambers to compensate. I am not kidding. 🫤

silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 56d

The published design from Social Circle had a shooting range next to the cages for people, not a gas chamber.