The Trump administration’s plans to expand its long-term immigrant detention capacity to the interior of the country is meeting resistance from advocates, lawmakers and even some corporations in the Midwest, where the government hopes to locate the new facilities.
But the effort has posed a political, practical and ethical conundrum for a number of a communities, including some conservative cities where Trump remains popular. Some of the pushback is just “not in my backyard” sentiment, but opposition also reflects the unpopularity of the administration’s immigration agenda, and even the fear of driving away immigrants who are important to the local economy.
It was hardly the first time ICE had set its sights on the Midwest. Beginning in 2011, it sought to consolidate Chicago field office detainees in purpose-built, privately operated prisons, replacing a scattered patchwork of county jails in four states. The proposals were thwarted by local opponents and by immigration activists, who oppose moves to expand detention beds.
In Ionia, Mich., a city of nearly 11,200 about 130 miles from the Detroit field office, Immigration Centers of America presented city officials with a plan to demolish a former state prison and construct a brand-new, privately run immigrant detention center in its place. The 600-bed facility, they estimated, would create 363 jobs and generate an annual $34.5 million in economic impact for the region, which had suffered following the prison’s closure in 2009.
Here, too, elected officials as well as business leaders had to weigh the potential new jobs and tax revenue CoreCivic promised against the potential harm an ICE detention center could cause. Local advocacy groups had been organizing for several weeks in an effort to urge state and local officials to reject the plan for the new detention center.
Though the bill’s future in the state Senate is uncertain, Tsao expressed confidence that lawmakers will be successful in “closing door once and for all” to for-profit immigration detention in Illinois. Asked about the possibility that, if the legislation does become law, ICE will simply build in another state within the Chicago Field Office region, Tsao noted that other localities, such as Elkhart, are also opposed.
The Midwest needs to step up. It’s not right for the border states to try to absorb all of these new immigrants. All Sanctuary cities need to practice sanctuary.
Genocidal Old People. GOP.
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