NYTIMES (Kim Barker and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn) - Bare Grocery Shelves Are a New Wartime Hardship for Ukrainians
After years of pounding power plants and cities, Russia’s air war has taken aim at Ukraine’s supermarket warehouses.
NYTIMES (Nataliya Vasilyeva) - What to Know About Wildberries, the Company in Ukraine’s Cross Hairs
Ukrainian drones have increasingly targeted warehouses belonging to Wildberries, which many Russians rely on as the country’s largest e-commerce business.
NYTIMES (Eduardo Medina and Hamed Aleaziz) - ICE Targets ‘Detention Desert’ With New Facility in North Carolina
Even as ICE has retreated from its plan to buy warehouses, the new complex near the Virginia border signals that the agency remains determined to increase its detention capacity.
NYTIMES (Valerie Hopkins and Alina Lobzina) - A New Target for Ukraine’s Long-Range Attacks: Russia’s Version of Amazon
Kyiv is escalating its air war by striking commercial warehouses, trying to bring the conflict closer to home for ordinary Russians.
NYTIMES (Hamed Aleaziz) - ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, reversing course on a signature initiative.
AXIOS (Brittany Gibson) - ICE targets Plan B after backlash to mega-jails plan
ICE is in talks to buy turnkey immigration detention facilities from its biggest vendors as local backlash derails its plan to rapidly renovate warehouses into large-scale detention spaces . Why it matters: The Department of Homeland Security wants to own its detention spaces, a pivot from the mostly leased network of beds that held a peak a population of more than 70,000 detainees earlier this year. Zoom in: "The broader vision is to develop a nationwide network that consolidates populations in relatively larger facilities that allows them to be able to service the needs of the entire country," CoreCivic CEO Patrick Swindle said on an investors call on Thursday. - CoreCivic leases roughly one-quarter of ICE's immigrant detention beds to…
ICE is in talks to buy turnkey immigration detention facilities from its biggest vendors as local backlash derails its plan to rapidly renovate warehouses into large-scale detention spaces . Why it matters: The Department of Homeland Security wants to own its detention spaces, a pivot from the mostly leased network of beds that held a peak a population of more than 70,000 detainees earlier this year. Zoom in: "The broader vision is to develop a nationwide network that consolidates populations in relatively larger facilities that allows them to be able to service the needs of the entire country," CoreCivic CEO Patrick Swindle said on an investors call on Thursday. - CoreCivic leases roughly one-quarter of ICE's immigrant detention beds to…Open
NYTIMES (Hamed Aleaziz) - ICE Warehouse Plan Faces Delay Over Lack of Environmental Reviews
Officials have argued in court filings that the projects are exempt from federally required assessments, but are scrambling after a judge disagreed.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Tolu Talabi) - ICE warehouses get cold shoulder — even in Trump country
As the DHS has embarked on a $38.3 billion plan to boost detention capacity by 92,600 beds, communities that back the president’s agenda have said no to housing immigrants in their backyard.
WASHINGTONPOST (Jonathan O'Connell, Douglas MacMillan) - DHS feeds talking points to Republicans as opposition to ICE warehouses swells
DHS sent talking points to Republican officials to promote migrant detention centers while communities complained about a lack of transparency.
WASHINGTONPOST (Theodoric Meyer) - New bill would restrict Trump administration’s push for ICE warehouses
The legislation underscores qualms that lawmakers in both parties have expressed about a push to set up facilities in their states and districts.