Utah Lawyers Prepare Suit to Block $145.44 Million 10,000-Detainee ICE Center
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Updated · KSL.com · May 24
Utah Lawyers Prepare Suit to Block $145.44 Million 10,000-Detainee ICE Center
2 articles · Updated · KSL.com · May 24
Early June could bring a formal lawsuit aimed at stopping ICE from converting a vacant Salt Lake City warehouse into a detention center for 7,500 to 10,000 people.
Jim McConkie said lawyers are researching legal claims centered on health risks, medical-care capacity and water use that could worsen Great Salt Lake dust and air pollution.
$145.44 million is what federal authorities paid earlier this year for the warehouse, which ICE told city officials would be one of a handful of national "mega centers."
DHS is still deciding which detention-center proposals nationwide to pursue, and McConkie said the planned nonprofit plaintiff would try to tie up the Utah project in litigation and deter it.
A similar Texas facility faces horrific abuse claims. Could Salt Lake City's proposed detention center repeat this history?
With federal plans now paused, will local legal action permanently stop the nation's largest proposed immigrant detention center?