{"id":46690,"date":"2026-02-14T12:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=46690"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:52:44","slug":"trumps-concentration-camp-build-out-includes-nearly-40-billion-for-warehouse-conversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/trumps-concentration-camp-build-out-includes-nearly-40-billion-for-warehouse-conversions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An empty warehouse is seen in Chester, New York on February 8, 2026. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement proposes a facility at a warehouse roughly two hours from New York City, but many locals and officials have objected to the plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by Matthew Hoen\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGermany\u2019s concentration camps didn\u2019t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours,\u201d wrote talk show host Thom Hartmann recently. \u201cHistory isn\u2019t whispering its warning: It\u2019s shouting.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Julia Conley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb 13, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s anti-immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass deportations<\/a>: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as immigrant detention centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US immigration<\/a> and Customs Enforcement documents that were provided to Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire\u2014one of the states where ICE aims to acquire a building and retrofit it to house at least 1,000 people at a time\u2014show<\/a> that the administration plans to spend $38.3 billion on its mass detention plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It would buy 16 buildings across the country to use as \u201cregional processing centers\u201d that could hold 1,000-1,500 people. Another eight detention centers would hold as many as 10,000 people at a time, with the detainees awaiting deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Post<\/a> <\/em>reported<\/a> that a review of state budget<\/a> data showed that the amount of money the White House<\/a> intends to pour into the project over the next several months is larger than the total annual spending of 22 US states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThirty-eight billion dollars,\u201d said<\/a> Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.). \u201cThat\u2019s what Trump is spending to turn warehouses into human holding facilities. Not on schools. Not on healthcare<\/a>. Not on veterans<\/a>. On warehousing humans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moulton also condemned ICE\u2019s claim that the new network of detention facilities will ensure the \u201csafe and humane civil detention\u201d of immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least six people died<\/a> in ICE detention centers in January, and one of the deaths, that of Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas<\/a>, was ruled a homicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medical neglect and abusive treatment\u2014including some that amounts to torture\u2014has been reported<\/a> at multiple facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE has already spent more than $690 million purchasing at least eight warehouses in Maryland, Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania<\/a>, and Michigan in recent weeks. Documents<\/a> posted on Ayotte\u2019s website show the agency is pursuing additional acquisitions in New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, and Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communities are already rallying against the plan and questioning whether the small towns ICE has selected have sufficient water<\/a> and sewer infrastructure<\/a> to support thousands of people detained in a warehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New York, Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) said last week that 25,000 people in his district have signed a petition opposing the use of a local warehouse to house immigrants and pointed to the \u201cmajor corruption<\/a> and graft\u201d evident in the plan to purchase and run the warehouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe site in my district that\u2019s proposed is owned by one of Trump\u2019s multibillionaire donors, who would directly financially benefit from this site,\u201d said Ryan, referring to former Trump adviser Carl Icahn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019m telling you, we are not going to let this happen in my district.\u201d@PatRyanUC<\/a> is pushing back on the Trump administration\u2019s plan to buy warehouses across the country to turn them into mass detention centers, including one in his New York district. pic.twitter.com\/KYOQb4WJx6<\/a><\/p>— The Recount (@therecount) February 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>