"The Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with plans to open a new immigrant-detention facility in a small town upstate, and the warehouse where it's supposed to be located is owned by none other than former Trump adviser Carl Icahn. As the Monroe Gazette first reported after the DHS posted a January 8 advisory on the plan, the former Pep Boys warehouse at 29 Elizabeth Drive in Chester is owned by an IEP Chester LLC, a subsidiary of Carl Icahn's holding company, Icahn Enterprises."
"According to draft ICE documents obtained by the Washington Post, newly arrested immigrants would be held in smaller warehouses, like the one in Chester, then funneled to larger warehouses before ultimately being deported. (Of the plan to repurpose literal warehouses like the one at 29 Elizabeth Drive, an unnamed ICE official told The City: "These will not be warehouses - they will be very well-structured detention facilities meeting our regular detention standards.")"
""I am against any and all ICE presence in Chester," the town supervisor told the Times-Union. "I will work with the village of Chester and any other government entity or official to keep any potential ICE facility out of Chester.""
The Department of Homeland Security plans to open an immigrant-detention facility in Chester inside a former Pep Boys warehouse owned by an Icahn Enterprises subsidiary. The facility is part of a nationwide Trump administration initiative to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement capacity and detain 80,000 immigrants. Draft ICE documents describe holding newly arrested immigrants in smaller warehouses, transferring them to larger warehouses, and ultimately deporting many detainees. An unnamed ICE official said repurposed warehouses would meet regular detention standards. Local officials and residents in Chester are protesting and seeking to prevent any ICE presence in the town.
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