ICE CONCENTRATION CAMP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE CANCELED AFTER PROTEST & Maryland Attorney General sues DHS over proposed ICE detention center 23FEB26

THESE articles are proof we, the people, do have the power through our activism and by electing government officials who represent our democratic values can defeat the corrupt, illegal and immoral actions of this administration. These so called detention centers are nazi inspired concentration camps run by Sec of Homeland Security fascist fotze trunt kkkristi noem , her dhs ice, hsi & cbp gestapo and the corrupt, greedy corporate military-prison complex. From a facebook post and WYPR 88.1 Baltimore.....

 The ICE concentration camp planned for Merrimack, New Hampshire has been canceled -- and this victory is thanks to the thousands of people who spoke out!

Whether you were protesting on the streets of Merrimack, calling the Governor's office, or writing to the owner of the warehouse demanding they refuse to sell, your collective efforts made the difference.

The heart of this fight has always been in Merrimack. For months, the people of this community of 30,000 between Manchester and Nashua have been organizing, demanding answers, and refusing to accept having a massive warehouse converted into a huge detention facility in their town.

Over a thousand took to the streets last weekend, holding signs reading "Human rights are for everyone," "ICE bringing terror and cruelty to a community near you," and -- in a nod to the state's revolutionary roots -- "We dumped tea for less."

They didn't just protest. They organized. They pressured their elected officials at every level. They packed town halls. They wrote letters. They made it impossible to ignore them. And it worked. DHS announced the cancellation. As New Hampshire State Rep. Rosemarie Rung put it: "This proves the power of the people is more powerful than the people in power."

Another critical part of this victory was the impact that so many of you had -- people from around the country and around the world who reached out to CBRE Group, the Fortune 500 company that owns the warehouse.

On Sunday, our post calling on people to contact CBRE and demand they refuse to sell reached millions. Thousands of you responded. You flooded their Facebook page. You wrote to their executives. You made it clear that selling a building to be turned into a concentration camp would not go unnoticed.

CBRE's response? They shut down comments on their Facebook page and mass-deleted what had already been posted.

Within days, commercial real estate outlet Bisnow reported that "a deal that was in the works for Trammell Crow Co. to sell a warehouse in Merrimack, New Hampshire, has fallen through." Trammell Crow -- CBRE's subsidiary -- declined to comment.

Will they admit that public pressure played a role? Of course not. But the timeline speaks for itself.

As we wrote on Sunday: "Every institution that does business with CBRE should know that this company is in a position to sell a building that will be turned into a concentration camp where people -- the vast majority with no criminal record -- will be detained in conditions that have already produced record deaths, documented abuse, and deliberate medical neglect."

CBRE made the right choice. As these fights continue in communities across the country, every warehouse owner considering a sale to ICE needs to know: people are watching, and the same pressure is coming.

Remember what ICE detention already looks like -- and what they want to expand on an industrial scale: 74 percent of the people detained have no criminal record whatsoever and just 5 percent have any violent conviction, at least 31 people died last year -- nearly triple the toll from the year before -- and a Senate investigation documented over 1,000 credible reports of human rights abuses.

Thank you to everyone who took a stand against the inhumanity of warehouse concentration camps -- and against forcing such facilities on local communities against their wishes. Whether you stood out in the snow with a sign or wrote a comment on CBRE's Facebook page, this victory belongs to you.

Community resistance is working -- not just in New Hampshire but around the country.

In Virginia, a Canadian real estate company backed out of selling a warehouse to ICE after facing boycott threats against its consumer businesses. In Oklahoma City, bipartisan local opposition led the building's owner to walk away. In Kansas City, the city council voted 12-1 to ban non-municipal detention facilities, and the property company withdrew.

In Utah, Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson spoke out against the facility, and the owner announced it had "no plans to sell or lease." In a Dallas suburb, the real estate company simply said it "wouldn't sell or lease any building" to ICE. In Pennsylvania, Governor Josh Shapiro announced the state would refuse to issue permits for warehouses DHS had already purchased.

The pattern is unmistakable. When communities organize, when they put pressure on the property owners, when elected leaders take a stand -- these deals collapse.

Now it's time to keep up the fight!

Here's how to say no to ICE concentration camps anywhere:

--> To learn about sites around the country where there are on-going fights -- and how to support them -- there is an ICE Warehouses of Interest tracking tool showing prospective locations at https://lookerstudio.google.com/.../b02.../page/p_uy4yssvm0d

--> To learn more about ICE's warehouse plans, the Washington Post ran an in-depth piece about community opposition around the country at https://wapo.st/3OIfSJn -- and a detailed expose about ICE's warehouse plans at https://wapo.st/3OfarSk

--> To get involved locally, connect with local immigrant rights groups and/or local Indivisible chapter. To find an Indivisible group in your area, visit https://indivisible.org/groups

--> Join the upcoming No Kings Protest in your community on March 28 -- learn more at https://www.nokings.org/

--> Democracy Forward, a national legal organization, is doing tremendous work on litigation against the Trump administration's immigration policies, including multiple lawsuits focused on detainee conditions. To support their critical work, visit https://democracyforward.org/

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Maryland Attorney General sues DHS over proposed ICE detention center

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Scott Maucione

Published February 23, 2026 at 2:22 PM EST

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is suing the Department of Homeland Security to stop the construction of an immigrant detention facility in western Maryland.

In the suit, Attorney General Anthony Brown says the White House is moving ahead with the conversion of a more than 825,000 square foot facility without conducting proper environmental assessments or asking for public comment.

“A facility this size would generate nearly four times more wastewater than the site was designed for, risking sewage overflows on the property and backups throughout the surrounding community, increased traffic, air quality impacts and the burden of local emergency services were never assessed,” Brown said in a statement.

The allegations echo what residents in the small town of Williamsport, where the building is located, and in nearby Hagerstown, have been concerned about.

Brown also alleges that DHS violated the Administrative Procedure Act by acting without explanation or any consideration of alternatives.

“We're asking the court to halt construction and operation of this facility. We're asking the court to require a proper environmental review with full public input, and we're asking the court to declare that what the administration did here was unlawful,” Brown said.

The facility has been a hotbed for controversy since DHS bought it in late January for $102 million.

Gov. Wes Moore wrote a letter to DHS expressing concern about the Washington County facility and the conditions of the facility in Baltimore.

U.S. Representative April McClain Delaney, (D-Md.) who represents Washington County, introduced legislation to block ICE from establishing the detention center.

“For DHS to pursue such sweeping and dangerous plans in darkness is yet another example of the Trump Administration acting without transparency, accountability, or regard for human life. I recently saw for myself ICE’s horrendous treatment of detainees at its Baltimore field office, and I refuse to remain silent as they thrust a facility–similar to a private prison–upon Washington County,” McClain Delaney said. “I will fight alongside Maryland lawmakers and community members to show up, speak out, and stand resolute in defense of all of our neighbors.”

Washington County residents have been pushing back against the facility since news of its procurement.

A petition asking Washington County Commissioner President John Barr and his peers on the panel to withdraw their support for the building has garnered thousands of signatures.

Protests have become commonplace. During the county commissioners’ meeting on Feb. 10, chants could be heard from outside the building. The commissioners shut the meeting down after protestors objected to a lack of public forum.

Claire Connor is part of Washington County Indivisible, a group opposing ICE in the county and the development of an immigration detention center.

“The biggest concern is simply the fact that there was absolutely no communication, no transparency about what was happening, and that we've been evaded at every opportunity when seeking a response from the county commissioners as to what's happening,” Connor said. “The real world implications of what is going to happen when you round up thousands of individuals, you cram them into spaces unfit to inhabit life, and what it will mean economically for our region, I think once that is realized, there will be people singing a different tune.”

Patrick Dattilo started the Hagerstown Rapid Response Network, a resistance organization, after hearing about the facility.

“We've got people across both borders, in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, over the mountains into Frederick and Montgomery County,” Dattilo said.

The facility sits at the crossroads of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and is part of a larger DHS plan to open ICE detention centers across the nation that could hold about 85,000 immigrants.

According to DHS records obtained by CBS less than 14% of people arrested by ICE have violent records. DHS repeatedly claimed that ICE crackdowns are primarily to target “dangerous and violent individuals.”

About 40% have no criminal record. Another 30% are nonviolent crimes. About 6% were related to “dangerous drugs.” Another 8% were driving under the influence infractions.

Of the 14% who were charged with violent crimes, 11% had to do with assault and 1.4% with sexual assault. People charged with homicides and kidnapping made up less than 1%. Less than 2% had gang affiliations.

Private prison companies like CoreCivic are reporting massive revenue increases through contracts with DHS.

The company is seeing nearly a quarter of billion dollars in revenue from four sites alone.