DHS deal to buy warehouse collapses after company learns of ICE's plans
A Virginia business has backed out of a deal to sell a warehouse to the federal government, after learning the building would be used as a detention center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
According to the Vancouver Sun, "Jim Pattison Developments says it won’t sell a warehouse in Virginia to U.S. Homeland Security to be used by its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as a detention centre. In an email Friday, the company said 'the transaction to sell our industrial building in Ashland...