Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is considering using the state’s “public nuisance” law to stop ICE from opening a massive detention facility in Surprise.
The law gives the attorney general and other county and local authorities the power to sue to block public nuisances, including anything considered a threat to public health, “offensive to the senses,” or at odds with “the comfortable enjoyment of life or property” by the community.
Mayes said there are real concerns that the ICE facility, which could detain up to 1,500 people in a 400,000-square-foot warehouse, meets that definition…