Republican officials across multiple states are opposing a federal plan to convert warehouses into large-scale immigrant detention centers, warning the facilities could place a "significant strain" on local infrastructure even as they broadly support President Donald Trump's deportation agenda, according to a sprawling report from Raw Story
The pushback has emerged as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeks to expand detention capacity to as many as 92,600 beds, a central component of Trump's goal of removing 1 million immigrants annually.
