The Department of Homeland Security is abandoning one of Kristi Noem’s signature policies by ditching seven warehouses she bought for over $700 million to serve as migrant detention sites.
The warehouses were meant to enable Donald Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown, executing his campaign pledge of removing the “worst of the worst” migrant criminal offenders from the country by putting a sprawling detention network under direct government control instead of relying on private contractors.
ICE had snapped up 11 empty buildings for $1 billion by the one-year mark of his second term, The New York Times reports. Noem, dubbed “ICE Barbie” for her habit of cosplaying as an immigration official, championed the effort before the president canned her in March.
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