After spending almost $207 million to purchase two vacant warehouses in Pennsylvania, the Department of Homeland Security is reported to be offloading the pair and other facilities around the country, with The New York Times reporting Thursday that seven warehouses are on the list.
The reporter who wrote the story, Hamed Aleaziz, posted on social media later Thursday that the warehouses in Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, and Upper Bern Township, Berks County, are on the list of the facilities ICE officials were looking to sell.
The Tremont site, which was previously a Big Lots distribution center, would have had a capacity of 7,500 people – among the largest such facilities in the country. The other – located 20 miles away in Upper Bern Township – would have the capacity to detain 1,500 people…