One in Berks County, Pennsylvania, one in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. These are huge. And they want to convert them to ICE detention centers. Housed about 9,000 people there. They did this without consulting with local officials, certainly without consulting with state officials. and by the way, pissed off not just me, but a whole bunch of Republican elected officials in those communities as well. (25:12–25:18)
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