The Department of Homeland Security is seeking contractors to convert large industrial warehouses into detention hubs that will see more than 80,000 migrants locked up at a time, according to a draft solicitation reviewed by the Washington Post.
The plan, reports the Post, would reshape the current system—where people are moved around to whichever facility has open beds—into a staged pipeline built around “processing sites” and massive “warehouses” intended to speed removals.
One senior ICE official has described the move as being similar to an Amazon Prime warehouse, but for people.
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