DHS Pivots $122MM Socorro Warehouse Acquisition to Mixed-Use ICE Campus as National Detention Buildout Unravels

The federal government's $122 million purchase of warehouse properties in Socorro has been downgraded from a planned 8,500-bed mega-detention center to a mixed-use ICE campus combining training facilities, offices and a smaller custody operation, a revision driven by infrastructure constraints that mirrors a broader national retreat from the warehouse-to-detention model. The Department of Homeland Security […]