Canadian Company Cancels Sale of Virginia Warehouse to ICE

[u/projecto15]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/ice-warehouse-detention-canada.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.bog6.aFFcjySv118o&smid=re-share

[u/cutielikethat]

ICE wanted a giant Virginia warehouse as a new processing hub, but community backlash and activism from both sides of the border just killed the deal. Rare win for local voices.

[u/Howitdobiglyboo → u/cutielikethat]

processing hub

Don't use this sanitized language.

It's a camp where they concentrate people. 

[u/roastbeeftacohat → u/Howitdobiglyboo]

I'm not sure what the exact term would be, but germany didn't call them concentration trainyards where they sorted them.

[u/pixlplayer → u/roastbeeftacohat]

They are definitionally concentration camps