Minnesota Declined to Buy a Prison for $75 Million. D.H.S. Paid $495 Million.
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The Department of Homeland Security paid 495 million dollars for a prison to hold immigrants. This follows a decision by Minnesota to decline buying the same facility for 75 million dollars. The acquisition is now under scrutiny. It is linked to the mass deportation efforts of the Trump administration.
The recent purchase of the prison to hold immigrants is among the acquisitions facing scrutiny in the Trump administration’s mass deportation push.