Local officials decry proposed ICE facility
Local officials are criticizing a federal government proposal to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility at the site of a former Pep Boys warehouse in the Village of Chester. The facility, according to The Washington Post, would be part of a larger plan to house 80,000 individuals in warehouses across the country.
A Jan. 8 “Notice of Activity” on the Department of Homeland Security website reads, in part:
Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus, a Republican, told News12 he is against the actions of ICE.
“The federal government is hunting people down who they say are mostly bad people but if their families have children that’s a problem and we owe it to ourselves to come up with a better solution than to round them up as cattle in a temporary center,” he said.
Neuhaus added he would prefer that
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