U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to offload the warehouse it bought earlier this year for a detention center in Salt Lake City.
It was one of 11 purchased across the country under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Markwayne Mullin, the new secretary, is pushing back on the initiative. The agency is now planning to sell seven of those warehouses or transfer them to other federal agencies, according to a new report from the New York Times.
The purchase in Salt Lake City, like others across the country, has met consistent pushback from both residents and local leaders concerned about human rights issues.
Salt Lake City and County also filed a lawsuit over the planned detention center.
Opponents of the detention center celebrated the news but said their opposition of ICE and its tactics doesn’t end here.
