‘Shock’ plans might convey ICE facility to Merrimack, N.H.

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One of many 16 processing websites, which may every maintain between 500 and 1,500 beds, is deliberate for Merrimack, New Hampshire.

A New Hampshire city has been reportedly blindsided by the Trump administration’s plans for a brand new immigration processing web site, based on a draft plan reported by The Washington Publish.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to renovate industrial warehouses throughout the nation to to carry greater than 80,000 immigrant detainees, based on a draft solicitation obtained and reviewed by The Washington Post.

The plan consists of not less than seven massive warehouses, which have between 5,000 and 10,000 beds, and 16 smaller processing websites. One processing web site, which may maintain between 500 and 1,500 beds, is deliberate for Merrimack, New Hampshire, based on the Publish.

The renovated warehouses nationwide will pace up deportations by establishing a feeder system, sending detainees first to processing websites then to the bigger warehouses the place they are going to be staged for deportation, the Publish reported.

The power in Merrimack, a city of almost 27,000 about an hour north of Boston, is the one one deliberate for New England.

Merrimack City Supervisor Paul Micali informed New Hampshire Public Radio that the city had no prior information of the plan, which got here as a “shock.” 

New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodlander, who beforehand drew the ire of the Trump administration, stated she’s working “to resolve this proposal.”

“I’m deeply involved by studies that the Trump Administration has developed plans — apparently with out enter from the group — to make use of an industrial warehouse in New Hampshire to detain human beings,” Goodlander stated on social media. “This isn’t who we’re.”

Gov. Kelly Ayotte didn’t return a request for remark in regards to the plan however shared on social media that “sanctuary cities are formally banned in New Hampshire.”

“We’ll by no means go the way in which of Massachusetts and their billion-dollar unlawful immigration disaster,” Ayotte wrote.

The plans are topic to vary, the Publish reported final week, with plans to share it with non-public detention firms to gauge curiosity in contracting.

Molly Farrar is a basic project reporter for Boston.com, specializing in training, politics, crime, and extra.