Democrats want to ban ICE from turning warehouses into detention centers

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - Amid an enlargement of national migration enforcement operations, ICE has reportedly purchased a 833,000 quadrate ft warehouse successful Salt Lake City, paying good supra its assessed value, to enactment detention, processing, and logistical needs successful the region. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) | Getty Images

A measure introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from converting warehouses and akin buildings into migrant detention centers, an effort to dilatory President Donald Trump's wide deportations campaign. The Ban Warehouse Detention Act would besides forbid Immigration and Customs Enforcement from processing different "non-traditional" detention facilities.

"ICE and CBP [Customs and Border Protection] are murdering radical successful the streets, tearing families apart, abducting our neighbors, and locking them successful cages. Now they are attempting to bargain and person warehouses crossed our state into monolithic pr …

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