Source: USA Today
by Rex Huppke
“Hello, I’m from the government, and I’d like to see what it’s going to take to get you and your community into one of our lovely new immigrant detention facilities! That’s right, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is on a $38 billion spending spree, scooping up warehouses across the country and revamping them into state-of-the-art-ish storage centers for people we have been working tirelessly to dehumanize. … our goal is to increase the federal immigration detention capacity by more than 90,000 beds, and we’re excited to start doing that as soon as you welcome one of our cruelty-forward human-being warehouses into your backyard. That’s where we’ve run into an unexpected bit of trouble.” (02/17/26)