January 30, 2026

ICE

Washington Post - One industrial building the federal government plans to overhaul into an immigrant detention center, in Roxbury, New Jersey, draws groundwater from a small town that uses nearly all of its daily limit.

Another proposed detention site is a warehouse in Oklahoma City that would hold up to 1,500 people a little more than a mile from an elementary school and a Pentecostal church.

A third location, previously an auto parts distribution center in Chester, New York, became so unbearably hot during summer months that two people who used to work there said it was akin to being stuck inside an aluminum shed.

Community members in Chester, N.Y., joined Rep. Pat Ryan (D) on Jan. 30 to rally against a proposed ICE detention facility in their region. Those are a few of the logistical and humanitarian concerns raised by residents and local officials in some of the 23 towns where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to convert industrial buildings into detention centers that combined would hold up to 80,000 people. ICE has offered few details about its plan since The Washington Post first reported on it last month.

The American Prospect - ICE Agents’ public executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have rightly drawn widespread fury, heartbreak, and action. And they are just two of the at least eight people agents have murdered or caused to die in the field between July 2025 and January 28, 2026. Even more people have died in immigration prison, in an even shorter time. Between July 2025 and January 28, 2026, 35 people have died in Trump’s concentration camps. These are minimum numbers—only the ones that the Trump regime has told us about, only the ones that have made it, sometimes, into the news cycle. And as for the people federal agents have merely injured? An official count doesn’t exist. There is no doubt that the regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country. 

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