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Lawmakers press GSA on DHS, ICE warehouse leases and lack of community notice
Summary
Ranking Member Stanton and others accused DHS and ICE of buying commercial warehouses and bypassing GSA and community engagement; GSA Administrator Ed Forrest said GSA had been instructed under an executive order not to publish certain lease awards and pledged written follow-up on lease counts and authorities.
Ranking Member Stanton told the subcommittee that Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been purchasing commercial warehouses that local communities did not learn about through normal public-notice channels. "We're not talking about a handful of properties," Stanton said. "We're talking about facilities with a combined capacity of up to 80,000 detainees" and "dozens of properties." He said community members found out through journalists and advocates, not through government notice, and…
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