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ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Documents released Thursday offer the most complete picture to date of the Trump administration’s controversial and costly plan to overhaul immigrant detention using industrial buildings.

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[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does this feel like a smokescreen for buying up infrastructure that can later house AI data centers maybe?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 23 hours ago

No. They're just building concentration camps.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

I think they'd go with a more popular smokescreen than "concentration camp" if that was the case.