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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US | Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what they're worried about? Fucking, fill those prisons with them.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

Those are concerns that tend to have local laws empowering people to block projects. "It creates too much traffic for my residential street" has the potential to stop something like this using established comfortable mechanisms when "They're planning to round us up and murder us" might not.