ICE Spent $700 Million on Warehouses to Detain Migrants. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.

ICE spent roughly $700 million acquiring warehouses it planned to convert into mass detention centers, but now intends to sell or give away most of the 11 properties — reversing course on a signature initiative of its detention buildout. The retreat follows mounting local legal challenges and the collapse of warehouse-conversion plans in towns across the country.