Local communities shut down Trump admin efforts to expand ICE detention centers

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2675062021/

(Previously posted as a comment but wanted to highlight the resistance.)

Local communities shut down Trump admin efforts to expand ICE detention centers

Alexander Willis
January 30, 2026 9:24AM ET

Multiple communities have hit back hard against the Trump administration as it seeks to expand its capacity to detain migrants across the nation, with at least one successful in shutting down an effort to turn a 26-acre warehouse into a migrant processing center, The Washington Post reported Friday.

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In a Facebook post, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt announced that he had spoken with the owner of the 26-acre property, and that they had confirmed to him that they were “no longer engaged with DHS about a potential acquisition or lease” of the property.
“I commend the owners for their decision and thank them on behalf of the people of Oklahoma City,” Holt wrote in a social media post on Facebook. “As Mayor, I ask that every single property owner in Oklahoma City exhibit the same concern for our community in the days ahead.”

Another target for ICE is Kansas City, Missouri, where officials are planning to transform a warehouse into a migrant detention facility with an inmate capacity of 7,500. When news broke of ICE’s plans for the property on Jan. 15, the Kansas City City Council voted that same day to institute a five-year ban on “all new nonmunicipal detention facilities,” the Post reported.

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[Moostache]

1. Make sure they are empty and burn them to the ground.

Make sure that the buildings are not available because this regime and its minions don't give a single fuck about laws or protections for citizens. Raze the infrastructure before it is co-opted anyway...

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Another reminder of this one absolute truth:

Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless

[CharleyDog]

4. wrote a bunch of emails to our Congress Leaders, not just my own, but also

Senate Leaders, majority and minority and House leaders. Asking:

Why are we kidnapping peaceful people, productive, positive people, kidnapping them to horrendous conditions, unregulated, no oversight. Worse than prison. Concentration of some of the best among us, far from home and family. Why? Without due process, treated cruelly by thugs.

Why are we doing this. Why is our President lying to us about this? This is so troubling to millions of Americans, they cannot sleep at night. How can you let this go on? I hope you cannot sleep until you stop this.

[dickthegrouch]

5. How on earth does one turn a warehouse with 5 bathrooms into a facility that can hold 7500 people?

You'd have to make major modifications for incoming and outgoing food, water, sewage, trash.
Hundreds of showers and toilets need to be installed.
Food preparation and serving areas.
Who's going to allow that?

[cbabe]

6. Historical precedent/Horse barn housing: Japanese internment

Densho
https://densho.org › catalyst › stories-of-life-in-tanforan

Horse Stall Housing, Spoiled Ham, and Other Stories of Life in Tanforan

The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Given that the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) was based at the