ICE purchases massive facility in Surprise, Arizona (screenshot via 12 News)
The Department of Homeland Security has purchased a massive $70 million building in the Phoenix, Arizona area to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation.
This comes as the department plans to “draw down on the number of people” from ICE and CBP stationed in Minnesota, Border Czar Tom Homan announced earlier this week following discussions with Minnesota officials.
The 418,000-square-foot shipping warehouse in Surprise is roughly the same size as seven football fields, 12 News reports.
The city said in a statement, “While we do not participate in ICE operations, we also cannot interrupt or prevent their operations.”
State Senator. Analise Ortiz described the purchase as “abhorrent” and accused ICE of unconstitutional actions following the real estate deal.
“It really should chill all of us because ICE is violating the US Constitution, which means none of us are safe, including United States citizens,” she said.
Via 12 News:
Still, the fate of Trump’s mass deportations agenda remains uncertain as Democrats push to defund ICE and call for the impeachment and prosecution of top administration officials involved with directing ICE operations.
Meanwhile, Arizona officials are ramping up their rhetoric against ICE, with the state’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Kris Mayes, providing justification for violent leftists to shoot and kill ICE agents.
Mayes recently suggested in an interview that you could lawfully shoot and kill ICE agents in Arizona, sparking outrage from state Republicans.
“You have these masked Federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks. And we have a stand your ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger, and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force,” Mayes said.
“You’re not allowed to shoot peace officers,” she added. “But how do you know they’re a peace officer?”
Mayes further presented a possible legal defense for anyone who shoots an ICE agent, telling 12 News’s Brahm Resnik, “It becomes, did they reasonably know that they were a peace officer?”
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(VIDEO) Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Disavows Attorney General Kris Mayes’ Calls to Murder ICE Agents, Calls for Mayes to Retract Statements
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