ICE is on a multi-billion-dollar quest for new immigration detention facilities, but they’re increasingly facing pushback from an unlikely foe: Republicans.

While Republicans may back the president’s immigration blitz on a national level, they’ve been leading voices of local pushback against ICE’s warehouse expansion while hinting at an old refrain: not-in-my-backyard.

Republican elected officials in Mississippi, New Hampshire, Tennessee and beyond have fought proposed facilities in their states.

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    8 months ago

    Of course that’s why. They want brown people gone and concentration camps are the opposite.