Project Salt Box, a Maryland website initially launched to track down the use of government contracts to purchase or lease immigration detention centers in the state, is part of a nationwide effort to expose Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expansion nationwide, including the recent purchase of a warehouse in Surprise, AZ. The website features a nationwide map of ICE Warehouse purchases. Opponents are fighting back by reviewing and reporting on government warehouse purchasing contracts, protesting developers/building owners renting or selling their facilities, protesting at city and county meetings to pressure officials to cancel ICE purchases. Existing detention centers are also being tracked at ICE Detention Reports.
Also see:
- Arizona Mirror — Mayes considers public nuisance lawsuit to stop 1,500-bed ICE detention center in Surprise
- ABC News — Federal immigration officials scout warehouses as they eye more detention space
- Axios Phoenix — ICE warehouse purchase fuels immigration enforcement concerns
- The Baltimore Banner — Project Salt Box: How citizen sleuths are monitoring ICE in Maryland
- Fox News — Anti-ICE chaos erupts at blue state county board meeting after panel endorses detention center
- KCUR — Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts
- KQED — Judge Orders ICE to Provide Medical Care in Largest Immigration Jail in California
- MSNOW — ICE’s warehouse detention centers run up against NIMBYism
- MSNOW — Rachel Maddow Show interviews Project Salt Box founder
- NPR — A (Georgia) town’s warehouse will become an ICE detention center. The town says it wasn’t asked
- Slate — (Subscription) — Republicans Are Objecting to ICE’s Human Warehouses—but Not on Behalf of Immigrants
- Spotlight PA — Shapiro admin tells ICE to drop plans for Pa. detention centers, warns facilities may not get permits
- Washington Post — (Subscription) — ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detentions centers.
- WYPR — DHS buys warehouse in Maryland to possibly hold detained immigrants
