ICE holds people in disgusting conditions. Now it’s turning warehouses into camps

Photo: President Donald Trump participates in a walking tour of the immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz”, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Florida. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Daniel Torok via Flickr. US government work. Opinion article by Moira Donegan. The Guardian – February 17, 2026.

There is a vast building, reportedly the size of seven football fields, in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix; ICE bought it for $70m. Another building, along the southern border in San Antonio, Texas, was valued at $37m; it’s 640,000 sq ft. In January, ICE bought a warehouse in Upper Bern Township, Pennsylvania, not far outside of Philadelphia, for $87.4m. In Williamsport, Maryland, outside Hagerstown, the cost of a facility on a nearly 54-acre plot was $102m. […]

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Photo caption: The interior of a barracks in the Flossenbuerg, Germany concentration camp – May 5, 1945. […] Photo credit: US Army Signal Corps via Wikimedia Commons / US Holocaust Memorial Museum, NARA. Public Domain.

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