A family land trust, a vacant warehouse, and $215 million in federal contracts trace the twenty-year path of a Maryland field to an ICE detention facility.
Thank you for this research. I was at the hearing where this was voted on (the one with no community testimony, where protests of locals were audible as the board rushed this through). Going even deeper in history we should name that enslaved people almost definitely made this land profitable and that the land was taken from the Susquehannock, Piscataway, and Shawnee.
Thank you Salt Box. You are amazing exposing the total ugliness of ICE plans in great details. A lot of these warehouses were cancelled thanks to resisters who pressured the owner of these mega industrial warehouses for human storage. I hope this one is cancelled although it was stated it has already been retrofitted. The county should sue the owner since it will overwhelm the county resources. And to think ICE warehouses are tax exempt. They give nothing back to the community.
What's odd is that all of these spaces were built when Biden was in charge, allegedly due to a surge in need for Amazon warehouse space. Andy Jassy knew he need to undo the growth surge for warehouse space in mid-2021, the day he took over as CEO from Jeff Bezos. None of the spaces were compatible to Amazon's robotic system. None of the locations even make sense unless you are Pepsi needing to deliver tons of pallets of product all along the East Coast. Amazon's needs are hyper specific and local (needs for same day delivery and being inside or adjacent to each big city) and not like that. It was odd to me. And it is funny these things were ever built, let alone finished. By early 2022, Amazon had come up with solution to their overcapacity: subleasing excess space. By the time Amazon posted their ?$2B? charge on April 28, 2022, everyone knew it was another bubble.
Top notch research and great writing, too. Iโm not a real estate speculator so itโs possible that all of these transactions are perfectly above board- but some of this stuff just sounds shady AF. Starting with the marked up purchase price- and the additional cost of having to outfit this never occupied warehouse as a prison camp. The absolute lack of humanity not withstanding, Iโve gotta believe that there would have been a more cost effective way to do this. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
Wowser. This is a ton of information, and it manages to pull a single thread through the life of that land. Thank you for pulling it all together.
This is top notch research!
Fantastic research! Project Saltbox is doing absolutely the best reporting on this issue anywhere!
Thank you for this research. I was at the hearing where this was voted on (the one with no community testimony, where protests of locals were audible as the board rushed this through). Going even deeper in history we should name that enslaved people almost definitely made this land profitable and that the land was taken from the Susquehannock, Piscataway, and Shawnee.
Thank you Salt Box. You are amazing exposing the total ugliness of ICE plans in great details. A lot of these warehouses were cancelled thanks to resisters who pressured the owner of these mega industrial warehouses for human storage. I hope this one is cancelled although it was stated it has already been retrofitted. The county should sue the owner since it will overwhelm the county resources. And to think ICE warehouses are tax exempt. They give nothing back to the community.
Follow the money... a Heritage Proj2025 stooge got a local board seat. This Is Why All Elections Matter.
Thank you for this extensive family tree
What's odd is that all of these spaces were built when Biden was in charge, allegedly due to a surge in need for Amazon warehouse space. Andy Jassy knew he need to undo the growth surge for warehouse space in mid-2021, the day he took over as CEO from Jeff Bezos. None of the spaces were compatible to Amazon's robotic system. None of the locations even make sense unless you are Pepsi needing to deliver tons of pallets of product all along the East Coast. Amazon's needs are hyper specific and local (needs for same day delivery and being inside or adjacent to each big city) and not like that. It was odd to me. And it is funny these things were ever built, let alone finished. By early 2022, Amazon had come up with solution to their overcapacity: subleasing excess space. By the time Amazon posted their ?$2B? charge on April 28, 2022, everyone knew it was another bubble.
Hey letโs call it Little Saint Donny Island
Perfect for Trump and his whole family. Calling all ICE Monkeys
Convoluted Trump lackey circle jerk with the American public tax dollars for human torture. so horrid
Top notch research and great writing, too. Iโm not a real estate speculator so itโs possible that all of these transactions are perfectly above board- but some of this stuff just sounds shady AF. Starting with the marked up purchase price- and the additional cost of having to outfit this never occupied warehouse as a prison camp. The absolute lack of humanity not withstanding, Iโve gotta believe that there would have been a more cost effective way to do this. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ