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Committee member presses GSA official over alleged secretive ICE warehouse purchases
Summary
A committee member told the House Committee that GSA has played a "largely hidden" role in ICE and DHS acquisitions of commercial warehouses, citing claims of hundreds of procurements, a reported capacity of up to 80,000 detainees, and thousands of community comments demanding transparency.
A committee member at a House Committee hearing accused the General Services Administration of playing a "largely hidden" role in the expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, saying the Department of Homeland Security "is purchasing dozens of large commercial warehouses to be converted into mass immigration detention facilities." The member urged Administrator Forst to explain the agency's actions and provide public transparency.
The member said the warehouse purchases are not isolated, calling them a "warehouse buying spree" and asserting the facilities could have a "combined capacity of up to 80,000 detainees." The opening statement alleged ICE requested space for 10,000 enforcement…
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