ICE spent $700 million on 7 warehouses. Now it wants to get rid of them.
The decision is a rejection of Kristi Noem’s signature initiative.
From The Times
June 19, 2026

Hoping to greatly expand its capacity to detain people and supercharge President Trump’s mass deportation effort, Immigration and Customs Enforcement bought nearly a dozen empty warehouses at a cost of $1 billion.

The exterior of a large warehouse with a street and tree in front of it.

Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times

Now it wants to get rid of most of them. →

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