"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.")"
DHS plans to open a new immigrant-detention facility in Chester using the former Pep Boys warehouse at 29 Elizabeth Drive. The property is owned by IEP Chester LLC, a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises, linked to Carl Icahn. The initiative is part of a broader Trump administration effort to expand ICE operations to detain 80,000 immigrants nationwide. Draft ICE documents describe a system where newly arrested immigrants are held in smaller warehouses, funneled to larger facilities, and then deported. An unnamed ICE official said the repurposed warehouses will be structured detention facilities meeting regular detention standards. Local officials and residents in Chester are protesting and seeking to block the facility.
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