No One Wants Stephen Miller’s Concentration Camps
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A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker says.
“I just spoke with DHS Secretary Noem about the proposed ICE detention facility in Marshall County,” the Mississippi Republican said in a Friday morning Facebook post. “I relayed to her the opposition of local elected and zoning officials as well as economic development concerns. I appreciate her for agreeing to look elsewhere.”
In a Feb. 3 letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Wicker wrote that the facility should be used for economic development instead, and expressed concerns about the strain housing 8,500 detainees in a town of around 1,300 would have on local infrastructure.
“From my understanding, the ICE detention facility would have a capacity exceeding 8,500 beds,” the senator wrote. “Existing medical and human services infrastructure in Byhalia is insufficient to support such a large detainee population. Establishing a detention center at this site would place significant strain on local resources.”
Of course this has nothing to do with infrastructure and local resources and everything to do with the fact that everyone except the most stone cold racists hates what the Trump administration is doing on immigration and people don’t want it in their communities. And if Herr Miller can’t built his camps in Mississippi, where can he build them?