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ICE Barbie’s Billion-Dollar Fiasco Faces New Crisis
April 28, 2026
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Nathan Howard/ReutersKristi Noem’s billion-dollar warehouse-to-megajail crusade has been thrown into doubt.The ousted Homeland Security chief, 54, was the architect of a frenzied bid to snap up commercial warehouses across the country and turn them into Amazon-style migrant processing hubs—a scheme detailed by The Daily Beast in December. About 1 billion has been poured into 11 such sites in pursuit of Donald Trump’s hardline target of 100,000 detention beds, but the plan has been beset by community uproar, scrapped deals, and Republican revolts ever since.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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