Post #388481
2026-02-24 14:13 UTC
@xankarn@mastodon.online
fortunately ICE is not very good at capacity planning. They will end up buying these properties, then realizing that the infrastructure (roads, electrical supply, water supply, personnel) are not available to support the intended use. Finally they will sell these properties at a loss. Our tax dollars "at work".
If you're in a community and discover a sale, lobby the town to put a toll on the road to the warehouse, apply additional water, sewer, or real estate taxes to help "defray" the extra cost before they figure out it's not feasible. At a minimum your town should get back more that what ICE puts into the effort.
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@xankarn@mastodon.online 2026-02-24 14:32
@mrose If these purchases prove to be merely wasteful, that will likely be the best possible outcome. I don’t share all your optimism about MAGA/ICE incompetence. In fact, the inability to do deep planning is part of what makes these sites so dangerous, imo.
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@Heartofcoyote@neuromatch.social 2026-02-24 19:42
@mrose @xankarn Yes! And the zoning for warehouse space is not the same as for high-density “housing”! Local communities can fight them on ALL of it. Those of us caught in the scams that are “HOAs” have seen a lot of ridiculous nitpicking BS that can be retargeted at these concentration camps.