ICE is on a multi-billion-dollar quest for new immigration detention facilities, but they’re increasingly facing pushback from an unlikely foe: Republicans.
While Republicans may back the president’s immigration blitz on a national level, they’ve been leading voices of local pushback against ICE’s warehouse expansion while hinting at an old refrain: not-in-my-backyard.
Republican elected officials in Mississippi, New Hampshire, Tennessee and beyond have fought proposed facilities in their states.


In the end, these facilities are not for immigrants, any more than Cop City is about training regular cops for public service.