Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
ICE wants to turn warehouses into detention centers. The suburbs are fighting back.
In February, DHS purchased the Roxbury warehouse for $129.3 million—more than double its assessed value. As part of President Donald Trump’s effort to deport millions of people, DHS is buying up enormous warehouses across the country to turn them into immigration jails.
"I've raised two kids...and I'm doing everything I can to not hand them over a world that is a horrible dystopian, gray, ashen landscape," said one protester.
Other protesters told us they hoped the immediacy of a massive immigration processing center in the neighborhood would force more conservative Roxbury residents to grapple with the inhumanity of Trump’s agenda.
You can read more about this story at MotherJones.com!
(bit.ly/40jJek3)
ICE wants to turn warehouses into detention centers. The suburbs are fighting back.
In February, DHS purchased the Roxbury warehouse for $129.3 million—more than double its assessed value. As part of President Donald Trump’s effort to deport millions of people, DHS is buying up enormous warehouses across the country to turn them into immigration jails.
"I've raised two kids...and I'm doing everything I can to not hand them over a world that is a horrible dystopian, gray, ashen landscape," said one protester.
Other protesters told us they hoped the immediacy of a massive immigration processing center in the neighborhood would force more conservative Roxbury residents to grapple with the inhumanity of Trump’s agenda.
You can read more about this story at MotherJones.com!
(bit.ly/40jJek3)
