Govt buying warehouses to turn into detention centers (incl. in Hagerstown)

[Anonymous]

The government has been buying up several dozen mega warehouses around the country to turn into detention centers. One is in Hagerstown Maryland.


More than 200 people showed up to protest the warehouse plans in Hagerstown on Jan. 20 in below-freezing temperatures. “One of the most obscene, one of the most inhumane, one of the most illegal operations being carried out by this Trump Administration is what they’re doing at the Department of Homeland Security and ICE,” US Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, told the protesters. “We do not want an ICE facility here in the state of Maryland.”

To reach its goal of deporting 1 million people a year, the Trump administration has said it needs more than 100,000 detention beds. Currently, there are more than 73,000 people in ICE custody, a record. The new sites could give the agency an additional 76,500 beds, according to documents shared with Bloomberg News. To fill all of them, the administration would have to expand immigration arrests beyond what it is already doing, said Emma Winger, deputy legal director at the American Immigration Council.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

[Anonymous]

They are modeling Amazon

[Anonymous]

How did Obama deport so many people without needing to do this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did Obama deport so many people without needing to do this?

He has more than a room temperature IQ, and surrounded himself with competent people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did Obama deport so many people without needing to do this?

Following the actual law is more efficient and costs less money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did Obama deport so many people without needing to do this?

I've been around law enforcement for almost 35 years -- there was backlash against Obama when he took office and adopted "Secure Communities" to significantly expand deportation. It was his program that automatically checks everyone's fingerprints in local jails to identify individuals violating immigration law. Because of the backlash, the federal government switched Security Communitites to a "Priority Enforcement Program," which just targeted the worst offenders. Trump overturned that in 2016 and it's gone downhill ever since.

There are definitely some bad actors we need to get out of the country. But they are such a small minority of all undocumented immigrants. And they are known to law enforcement. The huge resource dump we've put into this is ridiculous. The inhumane tactics we use are unspeakable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did Obama deport so many people without needing to do this?

He has more than a room temperature IQ, and surrounded himself with competent people.

He also kept the tenor correct. I wild out here because I detest a lot of the posters, I don’t care. I’m not making statements to a broad audience. Obama is excellent and controlled with his rhetoric and that made everyone in the fed government snap to including Tom Homan. The Tom Homan during his terms versus the Homan we see under Trump2 are almost entirely different in how they conduct themselves. It’s pretty startling but the cause is clear, destroy and behave despicably as if that indicates power.

Chris Van Hollen is an excellent Senator.

[Anonymous]

I guess they think there’s so many people they need to concentrate them somewhere. Like in some kind of camp.

[Anonymous]

I dont understand how this version of deportation is less expensive than having tax-paying working immigrants...including those who may have come "illegally", especially as children, being given the opportunity to obtain citizenship if they have no criminal record.

It just seems stupid and wasteful. The private contractors are making billions off these warehouses. Some people are being kept for 3-5 months. How is that any different than them being in their homes for 3-5 months? Oh wait...no one can make money off of them if they arent housed in big warehouse prisons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont understand how this version of deportation is less expensive than having tax-paying working immigrants...including those who may have come "illegally", especially as children, being given the opportunity to obtain citizenship if they have no criminal record.

It just seems stupid and wasteful. The private contractors are making billions off these warehouses. Some people are being kept for 3-5 months. How is that any different than them being in their homes for 3-5 months? Oh wait...no one can make money off of them if they arent housed in big warehouse prisons.

You know this was never about immigrants being “expensive.”

[Anonymous]

are they going to make them into gas chambers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did Obama deport so many people without needing to do this?

I've been around law enforcement for almost 35 years -- there was backlash against Obama when he took office and adopted "Secure Communities" to significantly expand deportation. It was his program that automatically checks everyone's fingerprints in local jails to identify individuals violating immigration law. Because of the backlash, the federal government switched Security Communitites to a "Priority Enforcement Program," which just targeted the worst offenders. Trump overturned that in 2016 and it's gone downhill ever since.

There are definitely some bad actors we need to get out of the country. But they are such a small minority of all undocumented immigrants. And they are known to law enforcement. The huge resource dump we've put into this is ridiculous. The inhumane tactics we use are unspeakable.

How many protestors will end up in these warehouses. 🤔

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:are they going to make them into gas chambers?

I wouldn't put it past them.

[Anonymous]

I think I read someplace they're also setting up detention centers in central Virginia, possibly the Richmond area.

Hagerstown has turned into a crime-ridden hellscape. Commerce has left that area. There's a big jail complex just outside of town. When inmates get released, they often linger in the area. That jail system has really hurt that town. If something isn't nailed down, it gets stolen. Residents are not amused, but what can they do?

Maybe Van Hollen can turn his attention to ongoing crime in Hagerstown in addition to "sexy" news like a detention centers for illegal aliens. Taxpayers could really use a helping hand from someone they elected to office. So far - zero, zilch, nada, nothing. But he sure was eager to help Abrego-Garcia, an MS-13 gang banger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think I read someplace they're also setting up detention centers in central Virginia, possibly the Richmond area.

Hagerstown has turned into a crime-ridden hellscape. Commerce has left that area. There's a big jail complex just outside of town. When inmates get released, they often linger in the area. That jail system has really hurt that town. If something isn't nailed down, it gets stolen. Residents are not amused, but what can they do?

Maybe Van Hollen can turn his attention to ongoing crime in Hagerstown in addition to "sexy" news like a detention centers for illegal aliens. Taxpayers could really use a helping hand from someone they elected to office. So far - zero, zilch, nada, nothing. But he sure was eager to help Abrego-Garcia, an MS-13 gang banger.

You've made a good point. Once any camp detainees are released in Hagerstown, without money or resources, they will probably stick around and hang out there -- just like the former prisoners Hagerstown embraced to proc jobs for the locals.