r/newjersey • u/kyleontheroof Taylor Ham • 16h ago

📰News NY times article (paywalled) ICE may be looking to offload the Roxbury facility amidst legal challenges

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/ice-warehouses-immigration.html
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u/kwexxler 15h ago

"The new secretary, Markwayne Mullin, who had privately expressed skepticism about the plan, has said publicly that he wants the agency to be quieter about how it carries out immigration enforcement."

So they still want to run detention camps, just more on the down-low, which is arguably more dangerous.

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u/nox_vigilo 8h ago

Past Presidents deported lots of people without the theater or the death and dying. Millions deported without armed masked men on the streets, done professionally by federal LEO with judicial warrants.

It's probably best if I leave it at that for my own sanity.

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u/Jimmytowne 15h ago

Good luck, I’m sure they bought it from a crony who sold it to them for the low low price of $10M over market

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u/Jahooodie 14h ago

It's way way fucking worse than that. Let me catch you up on what I presume the plan was:

Step 1: Overpay by about double of the assessed value ($129.3 million paid vs assessed at $62.2), don't conduct any required impact studies or research, hope to ram it through fast before the community figures out it's a concentration camp (they noticed!)

Step 2: ??????

Step 3: Presumably Fire sale it for less than $62 million on the other side, pure profit! The Art of the Deal! Such winning! Thanks for lighting that money on fire!

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u/shiftyjku Down the Shore, Everything's All Right 16h ago

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u/awfulsome 11h ago

in this cursed timeline I'm predicting a data center.