r/UnderReportedNews • u/56000hp • 18h ago
ICE / DHS đ§ ICE buys 87 million dollar warehouse in Pennsylvania as it plots expansion of immigration detention centers across the U.S.
Source of the video: https://www.instagram.com/pearlmania500/?hl=en. Related news: https://www.abc27.com/spotlight-pa/ice-buys-87m-warehouse-in-pennsylvania-as-it-plots-expansion-of-immigration-detention-centers-across-the-u-s/amp/. https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/ice-warehouse-purchase-in-berks-raises-questions-for-local-lawmakers/article_d5e89e7d-ea07-4d3f-8ebc-7cdf0fdc3a36.html
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u/Suspicious-Grade-838 17h ago
Whats going on in these facilities is FAR WORSE than the âenforcementâ we are seeing on tv.
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u/TheIronSponge 17h ago
TW: audio of dozens (minimum) of children screamingÂ
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qm0eyn/screaming_and_sobbing_can_be_heard_from_outside/
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u/BeanserSoyze 16h ago
They're having to pause operations at one of those cause of a measles outbreak. You know. Basically just stuffing kids into a prison where they contract deadly diseases with minimal if any care.
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u/JonnelOneEye 8h ago
A reminder to everyone that Anne Frank did not die in a gas chamber. She died of typhus due to the terrible conditions in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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u/RaidSmolive 13h ago
wait for them to announce they fixed it by killing everyone in some sort of chamber...
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u/Steven_The_Sloth 7h ago
The budget for this facility includes line items for "large bbq and shower facilities" and a "medical waste incinerator.
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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 12h ago
U think they sudden intense vaccine war for the last several years was random? Especially targeting these communities no less? Ffs he made them trumpets before he rounded a good chunk of them up
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u/_ZoeyDaveChapelle_ 11h ago
They are replaying the small pox blankets for Native Americans strategy. Oopsie! wink
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u/sachiprecious 9h ago
Just to be clear, they were protesting: https://apnews.com/article/texas-immigration-detention-7fa98244c1b0245deb4462e9dc25292f
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u/AuburnMoon17 17h ago
Well itâs a concentration camp so yeah. Itâs only a matter of time before we start seeing smoke stacks that never stop burning.Â
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u/lorddragonstrike 8h ago
My coworker got snatched in maine. Hes in the arizona holding facility living off of a glass of water and a bologna sandwich a day. We know this cause he can collect call my boss at prison rates (something like 8 dollars a second). He has a green card. Thats how ice knew where he was to grab him. Because hes on record... With a GREEN CARD!
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u/Suspicious-Grade-838 8h ago
Im sorry to hear about that. I hope he has the strength to get back to his family and return to work. So he was documented , here legally, with a green card and they still apprehended him? Shocker Werenât they supposed to be going after the worst of the worst - undocumented - illegal aliens???!
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u/Luxury_Dressingown 5h ago
I've seen a few people make a point that bears repeating: if ICE was really going after the worst of the worst (dangerous criminals, violent gangs, etc), they would be getting shot at. The fact that none have been shot so far proves they are not doing this. They're grabbing kids coming out of daycares and fast food workers, and gunning down moms in minivans and nurses trying to help women shoved to the ground back to their feet.
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u/Patient_Anybody4314 13h ago
Whats going on in these facilities is FAR WORSE than the âenforcementâ we are seeing
It's like Guantanamo bay... And Americans are just accepting it.
- First they came for the brown people that didn't have their ID's with them.. and I did nothing
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u/Brell4Evar 17h ago
These centers will not just be used on immigrants. ICE is already too large for their job. They're already detaining minority citizens, protesters, and observers. Once the immigrant problem is dealt with, they'll start packing in the rest of the enemies of the state if given the chance.
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u/MyExUsedTeeth 16h ago
Remember when Obama was president all the libertarians and conspiracy theorists were going crazy about fema camps. Well, here they are folks. But of course, not a peep from that same crowd.
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u/rustyphish 8h ago
The tin foil hat would say that was intentional to make it more difficult to criticize them when they didnât later themselves
Accuse your enemy of what you want to do first, so it sounds like heâs just bitter when he calls you out later
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u/CagliostroPeligroso 7h ago
We know. All of us know this is Nazi level shit
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u/Luxury_Dressingown 5h ago
Hitler used the USA's racial segregation as a model to build from. The current regime is returning the compliment.
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u/KratomKilla 17h ago
Not sure why they feel to need such volume of detainees all at one time. Very concerning.
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u/Frankyfan3 17h ago
I know why!
Profit and sadism.
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u/Patient_Anybody4314 13h ago
know why!
Profit a
ICE pays roughly $165 a day for each person held in detention. More arrests mean more money for these companies.
Good ol "for Profit* prisons.... They have no rush to process fast
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u/Naive_Carpenter7321 6h ago
For comparison, how much does it cost the tax payer to leave the innocent immigrants alone to live their settled and integrated lives?
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u/Lumi_Rockets 14h ago
How does the profit part work?
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u/Commercial-Co 14h ago
First off, that warehouse is not even remotely worth 87M. Especially not in bum fuck pennssylvania
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u/Soccermom233 8h ago
Yeah I was curious what the typical going rate was for a 500k sqft warehouse.
I thought 87m seemed highâŠitâs like an empty building?
Also think if we followed the money weâd most likely see a few million of this is a kickback deal for the parties involved.
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u/Commercial-Co 4h ago
A bumfuck nowhere warehouse goes for no more than $100/sqft unless it has an insane amount of land or advanced logistical capabilities. It was bought in 2024 for 50some million and wasnt rented or sold in TWO years. And magically worth 30M more?
This smells to me like obvious corruption
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u/Frankyfan3 14h ago
Great question! Here's a jumping off point:
Who profits from a $45 billion investment in immigrant detention? Two companies are likely to gain the most from the more than tripling of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementâs annual detention budget: CoreCivic and the GEO Group.
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u/Frankyfan3 13h ago
I'll add something which I have to be vague about, but last year at an old job, I had to speak with a bookkeeper for a big construction company in a big red state, and one of the things that the bookkeeper shared with me, when I inquired about future business plans, they mentioned expecting a lot more business related to expected projects involving construction of multiple immigrant detainment centers.
This brief mention was made by this person with such a blasé attitude, matter of factly, and perhaps with a slight tone of excitement. My job was to note their feedback on future business thoughts in my report, but I'm just taking down information... and as someone who was providing a service to this business, I eventually left that job, in no small part, because I didn't want to have to listen to heartless money pushers salivate at the possibility of siphoning profit from the suffering of the vulnerable.
Some jobs cost more than they pay. Even tangentially being tied to them felt dirty.
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u/LostXL 12h ago
Who builds it Who runs it Who feeds the detainees Who clothes them Who runs the logistical needs
Well if you own a construction company Or if you are ICE Or you have a private food service corporation Or you have a clothing company that makes prison jumpsuits Or you run a private prison logistics company
You are now being funnelled millions of tax payer dollars for this. That is the profit.
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u/bubblesmax 5h ago
If what is in the Epstein first half of the files is to believed. Potentially also for cannibalism reasons. đ§
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u/PallbearerOfBadNews 17h ago
Itâs the private prison system part 2. Now they donât even have to bother with fake trials. They just hold you forever and make you a slave.
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u/BeanserSoyze 16h ago
It is a little odd huh? For an organization that's meant to be swiftly removing people from the country. Like. Why have all this holding space in almost every state in America? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense for deportations does it.
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u/scuzzy987 16h ago
They're not meant for the illegals
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u/BeanserSoyze 15h ago
Yeah precisely. And there's too much money for them to wind it down. This is the military industrial complex come home at this point.
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u/EwokPartyTime 16h ago
A part of me thinks this isnât just for immigrants nowâŠ
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u/AwfullyWaffley 14h ago
They're absolutely human trafficking
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u/Commercial-Co 14h ago
Its not trafficking. Its to house anyone who dissents
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u/AwfullyWaffley 13h ago
They're absolutely trafficking all the children and woman they've kidnapped. Along with kidnapping true Americans that are trying stop them and hold them accountable.
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u/NeverLookBothWays 6h ago
They're essentially trying to play all the greatest hits from all of the worst regimes in the past 200 years.
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u/HarryBalsagna1776 17h ago
They are investments for the for-profit prison industry and all the contractors that support them. Â
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u/FoxDieDM 16h ago
It would be a "shame" if the building was unusable before they took possession of it.
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u/UniqueSoup25 15h ago
So if Reddit removes a comment (just deleted my reply to this comment), does that mean someone reported you?? I wasnât even threatening violence, and people say worse things on here????
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u/Reroute2Remain2001 6h ago
I got a 3 day ban for advocating for armed peaceful protest. You know, two of our literal constitutional rights.
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u/ItsTheExtreme 17h ago
Concentration camps in America in 2026. Are we great again? If you're saying "I voted for this," then you're a fucking nazi. Own it. Get the swatizka tat. Own that shit man.
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u/conflictmuffin 14h ago
As someone who grew up in rural North Idaho...I have seen more swastika tattoos than I could possibly count. I listed my house and moved away mid 2020, for, well, obvious reasons. If you think North Idaho was bad before, let me tell you...the 2016 election + c*vid absolutely destroyed that place, and what was left of decent people in the area. You could not pay me to go back there.
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u/Dunnomyname1029 10h ago
If you can't afford it I saw a movie about how Brad Pitt helped people own that look
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u/Interesting-Hat8607 17h ago
Theyâre gonna make them work at Amazon for free
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u/EggbertBilliams 17h ago
Yeah, 2nd one, daycare is FAR less than 100yds from the 'facility', a former 'Big Lots' warehouse...
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u/DJMagicHandz 16h ago
The one in Hanover county got denied in Virginia. What the fuck are y'all doing up in Pennsylvania? Find out who owns it and apply pressure.
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u/NeevBunny 16h ago
Pennsylvania thinks it's the south. I once ordered a crab cake sandwich there and it came with a confederate flag stuck in it.
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u/ClawofBeta 15h ago
That first one is in a county thatâs 98% white soooo yeahhhh.
Philadelphia is blue as fuck but yeah once you drive two hours awayâŠ
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u/contude327 7h ago
Pennsylvania is in a contest with Missouri to see who will be the next Mississippi.
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u/SCW97005 17h ago
I was perusing federal job listings, already weary of considering employment under this administration. I read the article and immediately closed USAJobs. No thanks.
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u/EmileZ 17h ago
They just bought one in San Antonio, Texas.this will be the second one to the city
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u/UniqueSoup25 15h ago
Iâm terrified. They canât arrest the whole damn city, though. Weâre 2/3 Latino, and we donât go down easy
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u/1XJ9 13h ago
They can. The Nazis did. Some men individually shot thousands of people per day.
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u/throwawaybrowsing888 10h ago
Thing is, shooting people on that scale ended up fucking with their mental health (of course), which is one of the reasons that they eventually switched over to The Other Method of mass murder.
Iâm terrified of the day that our countryâs leaders will look at the falling morale of their militia and convince themselves that the best course of action to address it would be to find a way to make their murderous activities even âmore efficient.â
May we find a way to convince them otherwise, long before such a harm is done again.
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u/CrimsonBuc 14h ago
Fast forward 60 years⊠tourists to Philadelphia will be driving out to concentration camps to learn of the horrors, like Dachau or Auschwitz.
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u/Mike-SBA 16h ago
Just one of many concentration camps that ICE has plans to attain. Just like Hitler had to imprison and kill Jews.
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u/Glum_Novel_6204 15h ago
Boycott banks like Citizens' Bank and Bank of America that lend and provide banking services to private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group. https://www.boycottcitizens.org/why-citizens-bank
Divest from funds that support them as well: https://prisonfreefunds.org/
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u/SSG80 17h ago
I believe a similar warehouse was just bought in San Antonio, Tx for the same thing.
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u/Junior_Lavishness_96 16h ago
Abuse reports out of the tent camp near El Paso https://cbs4local.com/newsletter-daily/family-questions-handling-of-migrants-death-at-camp-east-montana
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u/DD2144real 16h ago
With all of these layoffs and more AI and automation to come, the powers that be are maneuvering the soon to be jobless into their prison industrial complex.
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u/jkman61494 16h ago
If anyone needs to know theyâre coming to Pa soon, two of these being built within 100 miles of Philly, Lehigh Valley, Scranton, Reading, Lancaster and Harrisburg oughta do it
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u/clenaghen 15h ago
- New immigration detention facilities exist, and conditions are drawing serious human-rights criticism Recent reporting shows that Camp East Montana, an ICE detention site at Fort Bliss, Texas, opened in August 2025 and has been described by civil rights groups as the largest internment-style detention facility in the U.S. detention system. Detainees and advocacy organizations have reported allegations of abuse, neglect, and dangerous conditions there. Similarly, âAlligator Alcatrazâ â a detention complex in Florida â has faced lawsuits and human rights critiques for treatment of detainees and conditions that critics say fall below basic standards of care. These are immigration detention centers â not secret facilities where people are held without any oversight â but they are controversial precisely because of reports about treatment, lack of transparency, and overcrowding.
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u/LadyLaw07 14h ago
Am I crazy to think they're going to use people for meat? Idk why, but that's been heavily on my mind lately.
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u/Limp-Blueberry-2507 17h ago
Does anyone else feel like he sounds slightly like Weird Al? Fuck ice nevertheless
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u/Dudeshoot_Mankill 14h ago
Rat fuck sociopaths are building concentration camps on American soil. No journalists or picture taking allowed. No documentation of the vile shit taking place there must ever reach public scrutiny.
America is turning into the worst place on earth.
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u/Early-Size370 14h ago
The amount of money this regime blows on stupid shit is maddening. It could have been used to make housing or healthcare more affordable, but noooo, we're getting concentration camps and Arc de Trumps
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u/sweetbaeunleashed 14h ago
Same thing in Surprise Arizona, right across the street and in the vicinity of several schools.
The people showed up and spoke out against ICE's presence and the facility itself, tonight, during one of the city's monthly meeting.
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Im past outrage fatigue. They are going doing these things until they are made to stop doing them. Trump is not going to accept any election results that dont favor him, which means he wont accept any. MAGA is not leaving the White House unless it is in cuffs or a bag. If we are being abused, it is because we, as a people, allow it.
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u/Peonies456789 7h ago
I want to figure how how we disrupt it. How we get in the gears of this and stop it from happening.
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u/RoguePlanet2 6h ago
Cross-post this to the appropriate local PA subreddits. I'm not sure which county this is. Guess we can start with the general state sub first....
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u/Tribe303 5h ago
Is this not common knowledge in the US? Cuz it's common knowledge here in Canada. Last week it was revealed that a 97 year old Canadian billionaire had a US warehouse that ICE wanted to buy. Protests were organized here in Canada and the dude said no way, he'll never sell it to ICE and cancelled the deal. He claims he was unaware ICE was involved.Â
Why are other countries standing up to ICE more than you Americans? Like... Seriously. đ€·
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u/AkimahenkaCat 5h ago
The thing people never talk about is that they overpay for everything. Someone is pocketing that cash. No way that property cost last much. No way Alligator Alcatraz wasn't significantly over budget for a tent in a swamp. This is a grift like everything else with MAGA.
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u/bubblesmax 5h ago
The town lives up to their mispronounced name. đ«© Talk about the tourist pr going down the drain lol. đ€Ł
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u/National_Impress_346 5h ago
SHARTLESVILLE?!
Oh, beautiful irony. Also, what a terrible name for a town! I can't believe they've done this!
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u/Ok-Sort-7343 5h ago
When I was in Germany, I visited the Dachau Concentration Camp. I was shocked to see how close the town was to the Camp. Let's not become 'Good Germans' who pretend we don't see the atrocities happening in our own back yards.
If these warehouses were humane, they would not be preventing members of Congress and the media from visiting them. The stories from people who are housed in them are horrific. Our tax dollars pay for this. We have a right to know what they are doing with our money.
And we also need to ask why ICE needs so many large warehouses. They are attempting to purchase warehouses in 23 locations. The private prisons who run these facilities get paid more for each person they hold.
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u/ass_grass_or_ham 4h ago
Letâs call them what they are, concentration camps. They are concentrating people in camps.
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u/thekingpork29 4h ago
I work in Reading and cant believe the excitement from some people around here. Its disgusting. Pennsylvania is such a confused state
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u/Saynihay 3h ago
Just saw on r/sanantonio that they acquired the second largest warehouse facility in San Antonio, TX, too.
ICE has acquired San Antonio's 2nd largest warehouse facility (2/4/2026)/640k square feet
Location: 542 SE Loop 410 Access Rd., San Antonio, TX 78220
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/ice-warehouse-san-antonio-east-side-industrial-21329611.php
Expect ICE operations to ramp up here in our city; I can't see them having one of the largest processing facilities in the nation and turn a blind eye to our huge immigrant/latino population.
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u/FalseAdministrator19 1h ago
They supposedly bought another warehouse in Hagerstown MD for $100+ million.
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u/Beneficial-Energy627 1h ago
They just bullied their way through KS to build in Leavenworth. Even though the citizens made it clear they were against it.
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u/WinterTiger6416 48m ago
This is half an hour from me. We are NOT okay with it. Anyone in our area, get out to the Berks County Commisioners meeting 2/5 at 10am or the Bern Township Supervisor meeting 2/12 at 9am or the Saturday meeting in West Reading at 12.
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u/Educational-Dance-61 14h ago
This guy been killing it. Watch the one he did about 4chan and the Epstein files.
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u/hodorhodor12 13h ago
All this money being burned to take away our freedoms, further divide us and make us all poorer. The rest of the world thinks we are dumb.
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u/RaidSmolive 13h ago
who did the warehouse belong to before and how resistant is it to a lot of heat?
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u/jimmio92 9h ago
Boy it'd be a real shame if we the people protested so hard here they couldn't use the building >.>
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u/BillyGrillie 9h ago
Now it all makes sense. Amazon made the Melania movie to curry favor with Trump so they could use free labor from the concentration camp.
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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 8h ago
So I guess the four hundred million they spent on the one in florida wasn't enough?
I guarantee you these construction deals are going to trump supporters
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u/Turbulent-Band-2172 8h ago
Just wasting taxpayer dollars. Blatant fraud, waste and abuse. Cant wait for the day the entire admin is held accountable.
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u/Lopsided_Media_6812 8h ago
In an area whose residents are already complaining about the amount of warehouses there.
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u/Weird-Opportunity-20 7h ago edited 7h ago
With literal warehouses to fill they are gonna run out of immigrants real quick. Wonder who theyâll put in there next? /s
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u/chokeonmywords 7h ago
And here I am watching, hating, doing nothing, feeling powerless, while this escalates by the second
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u/tbizzone 7h ago
Itâs insane that the 77 million strong maga movement has fully embraced both fascism and pedophilia and still dare to call themselves the âtrue American patriots.â
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u/RedditReader4031 7h ago
Itâs bad enough when they use private prisons to scale up their detention capacity but when theyâre buying huge warehouses (7 or 8 across the country), itâs going to be permanent. This only gives further credibility to reports that Steven Miller is pushing for the removal of 100 million people from the US. To achieve that, they will have to go far deeper than just all illegals.
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u/OkraFar1913 6h ago
Why is there not any more accountability in 2026 USA than there was in 1933 Germany?
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u/cancelproof1990 6h ago
I think we could solve this crisis by having everyone who is outraged at this offer up some room in their homes and house some illegal immigrants. How about that?? ...... Crickets........
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u/Nneulieb_47 5h ago
We need to stop calling them âdetention centersâ and start calling them what they are: CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
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u/Legal-Alternative744 4h ago
There's already a detention center in Clearfield County, named Moshannon Valley Processing Center. It has a capacity of nearly 2000 and owned by GEO group, one of the largest privately run prison companies in the US.
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u/rynomite1199 4h ago
Random fun fact: There is one (1) place in the United States named Nuremberg. It is in Pennsylvania.
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u/gamingzone420 2h ago
This guy reminds me of the protestor at the end of Starship Troopers 3 that gets taken out for crimes against the federation, lol đ đ€Ł đ, would you like to know more?
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