In a quiet Texas town on the edge of the Rio Grande, whispers began to circulate about federal immigration officials eyeing three colossal warehouses for conversion into a detention center.
Before local authorities could even ascertain the truth, a deed was filed, revealing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had already sealed a $97.5 million deal for the 826,000-square-foot properties in Socorro, a community of 40,000 just outside El Paso.