ICE reportedly dumping 7 detention warehouses -- but legal fight over MD's continues

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The April injunction allows ICE to perform "various security and maintenance activities" on the site.
57% : " Shawn Byers, an ICE official, stated in a declaration last week that the fence was about 8 feet tall and that the agency would tell the court when it had plans for a permanent one.
55% : ICE bought it in January for $102 million, state property records show, and announced plans to create capacity for up to 1,500 detainees.
51% : " The Times reported ICE plans to sell or transfer to other government agencies two warehouses in Georgia, two in Pennsylvania and one each in Michigan, Utah and New Jersey.
49% : In addition to the injunction in Maryland, ICE has told federal judges in Michigan and New Jersey that it wouldn't proceed with renovating its warehouses before conducting environmental tests.
44% : State law prevents county detention centers from renting out space to ICE, so people who are arrested are eventually transferred out of state.
41% : Separately, ICE was ordered in March to prevent overcrowding at its "hold rooms" in Baltimore, the short-term detention facilities where detainees reported inhumane conditions.
40% : ICE did not immediately respond to The Daily Record's request for comment.
39% : The New York Times reported last week that ICE has moved to sell or transfer seven of the 11 warehouses it has bought as part of the Trump administration's mass-deportation efforts.
39% : Earlier this month, a lawyer for ICE wrote that the fence was being built "for the purpose of preventing vandalism, arson, and graffiti.
38% : Environmental lawsuits have caused ICE headaches around the country.
37% : " ICE has no long-term detention capacity in Maryland.
35% : U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reportedly planning to get rid of most of the warehouses it has bought to convert to immigration detention centers, but the site in Western Maryland will remain in ICE's hands for now.
11% : But ICE has pivoted since President Donald Trump fired former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and replaced her with Markwayne Mullin, the former Oklahoma senator.

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